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...common misconception that summer research assistants seldom transcend the menial duties of an academic "go-fer," Goodarzi and others say. Summer interns are frequently portrayed as slaves to the xerox machine, pausing only to stir the professor's coffee. Interns are quick to counter, however, that they are usually assigned a full range of research tasks, often personally assisting the professor with important projects...
...nice things that has happened is that we have got international competition, and it is sending us urgent signals to get with it. The good companies have heard the message. Look at Xerox, Motorola. You can just see the surging excitement of those companies. They don't take any garbage. They are not going to take any unfair competition from overseas. They are willing to fight for their rights. But they have no fear about competing on any playing field anywhere with anybody, because they think they and their people are that good and they are willing to commit resources...
Soviet purchases of the new technology of communication -- desktop publishing, computers and modems, fax and Xerox machines, cellular telephones -- could also have far-reaching effects. Washington has been cautious about releasing some of this, for fear it might enhance Soviet military power. On the contrary, it is more likely to advance the free flow of ideas and the growth of political diversity. A centralized state would find it hard to turn back the clock...
Raskin also manages to take a few sharp digs at CLS itself, nothing that the movement has quickly managed to incorporate itself into the status quo. "It is often said that you can tell CLS militants because they tie up the Xerox machine at Cravath, Swain & Moore," he remarks, suggesting that the movement lacks a sense of purpose...
...entire country (with the exception of the military) is suffocating in a technological vacuum. According to a delegate of a U.S. computer exhibit in the Soviet Union, many Russians are amazed when they first see that a Xerox machine "knows" how to copy the Russian alphabet...