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...Mignon Williams, 42, a black marketing executive in Rochester, N.Y., affirmative action means opportunity. Recruited by Xerox Corp. in 1977 under a pioneering plan to hire women and minorities, Williams rose from saleswoman to division vice president in just 13 years. While Williams attributes her success mainly to hard work and business savvy, she acknowledges that her race and her sex played a role in her rapid rise. Affirmative action, she says, "opened the door, but it's not a free pass. If anything, you feel like you're under a microscope and have to constantly prove yourself by overachieving...
...pattern has become familiar. The pair promoted a mining venture called Skylark Resources, whose stock traded at nearly $4 a share in 1987. The outfit soon crashed, and the stock is around 2 cents. NETI Technologies, a software $ company, was trumpeted in the press as "the next Xerox" and in 1984 rose to a market value of $120 million with Baybak's help. The company, which later collapsed, was delisted two months ago by the Vancouver exchange...
Interviewing Matisse is filled with unique, if one-dimensional, characters. Molly, for example, is a Xerox artist, one whose creations are only copies of other people's work. Molly, Lily and their friends are witty, if unfinished, particularly since we only know about them through the anecdotes of the narrators. Because they discuss mutual friends, Molly and Lily never describe anyone fully enough for the reader to grasp their personalities. We are left with tidbits, sufficient to spark interest, but not to relay complete identities...
...similar problem exists with the library's ever-elusive Xerox machines, all of which are exactly 15 minutes away from everything that one might conceivably want to photocopy. It might make some sense to put Xerox machines over by the noncirculating periodicals and journals in the Widener stacks...
POINT 2. Change. Not the earth-shaking kind advocated by our crusading campus revolutionaries, but the loose kind which is almost nowhere to be found in the Widener-Pusey-Lamont system. Where on earth is one supposed to get it? Sure, there are change machines over by the Xerox machines. But they only take $1 bills...