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Read recalls one student who, during a BSC discussion, said, "It's nice to be in a place where students can understand what it's like when you have to buy a textbook in the morning, xerox it, and return it in the afternoon...
...Well, good luck. You'll need it." Then the One pauses, and as the grease plays delicately out into the crisp Cambridge air, he adds "By the way, could I xerox a copy of Feldstein-Garcia...
Last week's departures bring to more than 70 the number of big U.S. firms that have decided to abandon their South African operations in the past two years. Among companies rumored to be contemplating sell-offs in South Africa are Xerox and R.J. Reynolds Industries. Indeed, as racial unrest continues and pressure mounts on U.S. companies to sever more and more ties, it is likely that the 240 remaining American firms have at least a plan for evacuation. Says Wall Street Analyst Pierre Rinfret, a consultant to several corporations with South African operations, including Chrysler and Tenneco...
...decade, these inventions have moved from laboratories to modern homes, offices and factories. With growing speed, the new technology promises to turn the electronic age into the age of optics, in which gadgetry built around beams of light becomes virtually indispensable. Says Robert Spinrad, director of systems technology at Xerox: "The optics boom is just starting to explode. Optics in the 21st century will be what electronics represents in the 20th century...
Another burgeoning area of optics is holography, the production of three- dimensional pictures using low-powered lasers. Credit-card companies now use complex holographic images on their wares to foil counterfeiters, and the U.S. Treasury has hired Xerox to figure out a way to put holograms on paper currency...