Word: lines
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...supposedly caters to normal, red-blooded, all-American types looking for a little heterosexual stimulation--well, even there we have come a long way from the days of Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe. Playboy at least pretended to be high-class, offering "erotic art" to "gentlemen." Today's on-line stuff has none of those gauzy illusions. Gone is romance, gone is art, gone even are flattering camera angles. What we are left with is stripped-down sex, prostitution in all but name, with women captured in the most degrading positions possible, servicing their partners--and us--via .mpeg...
...noon I prayed at the mosque. After the prayer a march started and went through the city of Ramallah and al-Bireh. The protesters condemned the Sharm el-Sheikh accord. The protesters arrived at the confrontation line. The occupation soldiers attacked them. We heard youths asking for help. We did not hear the sounds of gunfire. The Israeli soldiers used guns with silencers. We were unable to do the late-afternoon prayer in a mosque, so we prayed in the open. We tried to avoid being shot by snipers at the City Inn Hotel and the building next...
...tell TIME that sailors aboard the Cole took snapshots as the ship arrived in port. FBI agents took the film for processing but, so far, don't think anyone got a shot of the bomb boat as it pulled alongside the Cole. Last week the Navy revised its time line of the attack, suggesting that the Cole had already moored when the bombers struck. The FBI hopes the bomb boat was photographed shortly before. Such pictures could reveal the bombers' faces...
...collapsed almost $40 billion to a piddling $5.6 billion. Xerox has cut its quarterly dividends 75%, to 5[cents]. As it's not currently welcome in the bond market, where its credit rating has sunk to near junk-bond status, Xerox had to tap a $7 billion revolving credit line, setting off rumors that it might be on the verge of bankruptcy. (Xerox says there is no liquidity crisis...
That won't solve the company's revenue problems. Xerox has cut bundling deals with Compaq and Dell to push its fledgling line of ink-jet printers, and it is spending $200 million on its biggest advertising blitz ever. But it's having a tough time taking on H-P in the hot personal and small-business space. "They're never going to beat [them]," says Frank Pacetta, vice president of sales at SingleSource IT and a 20-year Xerox veteran...