Word: xeroxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year Hughes cleared $7,000 from the business and another $1,300 working during the cold, off-season months as a security guard. His wife earns $9,400 as a secretary to David Robinson III, a black lawyer who is regional counsel to Xerox. She started in secretarial work by enrolling in a three-month program in which IBM paid people to study shorthand, typing and English. Now she is learning to be a legal secretary so that she can earn still more...
...Xerox Journalism. The trustees eventually went along with the award, but not without some soul-searching. Columbia President William J. McGill revealed that "a very substantial number of trustees feel very strongly about the problem of approving a prize which seems to convey that the university is approving illegal acts." Some trustees also balked at rewarding White for a story that may have fallen in his lap. Said McGill: "The feeling is not that the reporter is at fault here but that the award is significant only because of the misdemeanor, and that seems to us to be Xerox journalism...
...committee opposed a resolution asking Xerox to affirm its political non-partisanship
...Xerox board of directors to nominate at least one woman director at its next meeting...
...Xerox has been granted patents in the U.S. and Britain for the process. But company officials clammed up when an abstract of the patent was published last month in an obscure technical newsletter-which, ironically, could probably profit from being made copy-proof. A Xerox spokesman insisted last week that the company had no firm plans to market the fluorescent foiler. Wall Street analysts who follow the company say that if the product is ever introduced, sales probably would be restricted to the Defense Department, and others who could demonstrate a compelling need. Company officials do note that the fluorescent...