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Under Masato the company has overhauled its operations, from the factory floor to the checkout counter. To increase productivity, for example, Masato installed industrial robots that can wind the cores for 4,000 baseballs a day, in contrast to 1,200 balls before the equipment was added...
...know what the real news is. DOLLY PARTON GETS GIANT NEW BUST IMPLANTS!, shrieked a recent issue of the Star, while the Enquirer offered a must-read yarn headlined ED MCMAHON FLIES INTO RAGE. For 16 years the dueling scandal sheets brought blood-and-guts drama to U.S. supermarket checkout counters. But the publishing pugilism came to an end last week when the owner of the National Enquirer, New York City-based G.P. Group, agreed to buy the Star from media mogul Rupert Murdoch for $400 million...
...system. But as with many other electronic gadgets, the cost could come down rapidly. Ecco Industries of Danvers, Mass., hopes to market a $300 voice-recognition security device for consumers next year. Within a few years, biometric security systems may be incorporated into automated-teller machines and employed at checkout counters to verify that a person is not using a stolen credit card. "In time," predicts Joseph Freeman, head of a security market-research and consulting firm in Newtown, Conn., "you'll be able to touch a spot on your steering wheel and start your...
...remain one of the few puzzles Asimov is unable to crack: "I have never found a way to convince them. They tell me there is 'absolute proof' of aliens landing on this planet. They read it with their own eyes. It turns out they read it at the supermarket checkout counter, trying to escape from reality...
Each book will have a bar code, and each borrower will have an I.D. card with a bar code, explained Dale Flecker, associate director of the University Library. At the checkout counter, a machine will read the bar codes of both, associate the two and store the information into the computer data base...