Word: xeroxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roosevelt took office, the federal bureaucracy consisted of 600,000 people. Today it adds up to 2,858,344. Such figures can only suggest that the growth of Government has been far more dramatic than the growth of the press that attempts to cover and monitor it. With innumerable Xerox machines and printing presses, through tons of publications, reports, tapes and films, countless Government flacks churn out enough information, and disinformation, to overwhelm an army of reporters. To a lesser extent this is true of other large institutions: corporations, unions, foundations, all of which try to manage the news...
...Rough Trade, and Xerox Love--Boston Film/Video Foundation, 39 Brighton Ave., Allston...
...Kling, president of Landmark Bancshares of Missouri, who used to work with U.S. Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss, helped raise money for the gala. Acting on White House authority, he persuaded at least 13 companies and banks (including Xerox, Bank of America and Chase Manhattan Bank) to ante up 5,000 tax-deductible dollars apiece. The White House did not say how much it raised for the dinner, which cost more than $80,000. Anything extra would come out of the State Department's entertainment budget. When questions were raised about the propriety of soliciting private cash, the White House...
...packet a proposal, plus all the technical data that can be amassed-papers, speeches, manuals-and the company annual report. The Chinese want to study in advance everything about a firm. Send several copies: the Chinese may want to distribute the material widely, but they are woefully short of Xerox machines...
...most participants, however, a corporate fitness program is the hottest perk since the executive washroom. "I feel better and it helps my whole attitude," says Mort Roman, a manager for Atlantic Richfield in Los Angeles. Vance Foreman, chief engineer at Xerox, credits his firm's plan with cutting his hypertension medication from three pills a day to one. Says he: "Before I'd change jobs, I'd ask an employer...