Word: xeroxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that bad news on the front pages is in a way good news: not just proof of the wickedness in man, but of the capacity of society to respond to it. Perhaps the defense is at last catching up to the offense. The age of data banks and Xerox machines and tapes leaves many more telltale spoors: the Justice Department's budget has tripled since Nixon took of fice; 2,000 employees have been added to the FBI payroll; strike forces against organized crime are rinding a happy hunting ground in Brooklyn, Newark, Boston, Chicago and New Orleans...
...Implanting modern technology requires western capital and education; it means implanting the western values and priorities that gave rise to science and technology as we know them. Without a fight of the type China has waged, especially without independent sources of capital, developing nations will become nothing more than xerox copies of the nations against whose colonialism they have fought for centuries...
...role of trip's jester had fallen to Sisco. His bombastic humor-not to mention the shaggy old yellow golf sweater he invariably wore aloft-made him a natural for the part. His first big moment occurred as the plane was landing at Rabat, when a large Xerox copier suddenly broke loose and slid toward him. The machine stopped short of crashing into the horrified Assistant Secretary, but not before someone yelled: "Oh, my God, stop it! We can't have more than one Joe Sisco on this trip...
Indeed, the big buying action on Wall Street these days is in the stocks of sound, old-line companies like Exxon, Bethlehem Steel and Du Pont. Such glamour stocks as Xerox, IBM and Eastman Kodak are still going down, partly because there is no shortage of copiers, computers or cameras. Also, many of the former highflyers pay small dividends or none at all. The standard industrial companies often pay dividends equaling 5% to 6% of the price of their stocks and so are better able to compete against other investments in an era of still lofty interest rates...
...time jetting round the world to promote the cosmetics of Faberge Inc., of which he is a director. Now he is getting a new line of products to push. His knowledgeable advice has helped encourage Fabergé to join the growing list of big corpo rations (General Electric, Xerox, Mattel, Reader's Digest) that are sinking money into making movies...