Word: memorex
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...axis of evil appeared ready to sue for peace last week. Saddam was still having "Is it live or is it Memorex?" moments, but his government was gone from Iraq. North Korea suddenly agreed to the American demand for multilateral talks about ending its nuclear-weapons program (even though Pyongyang promptly announced the program was proceeding). Even proud Iran was making conciliatory noises. The newspapers in Tehran were hot with argument over a proposed public referendum on whether to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Great Satan. The idea was floated by former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the cleverest...
...manufacturers of blank CDs, the rip-and-burn trend has proved a windfall. Americans stocked up on 1.4 billion blank CDs last year. Memorex, stuck with decaying sales of cassettes and VHS tapes, deftly moved into the market for CD-Rs and now owns the top share, with 30%. By the end of the year, Memorex says, it will be completely out of the tape business...
Many Democrats in the hall have given up trying to figure out what's real and what's Memorex. Several weeks ago, Hillary told Elizabeth Bumiller of the New York Times that she had, after all, been quite active behind the scenes of the Administration. I tend to believe that's true, but the truth is closed off to Hillary after six years of denying that she ever set foot in the West Wing, preferring to concern herself with preserving historic sites, fussing over state dinners and writing a book on entertaining. You can have only so many guises...
...After the rejection of Lewinsky live, the Senate settled for Memorex. By a 62-38 vote, those still-hungry Republicans won their multimedia moment: Members -- and the nation -- will get to see and hear Lewinsky tell her story, familiar though it may be. Will it change any minds? Doubtful. That point was driven home by Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who followed his defeat on the videotapes with another one: A symbolic effort to skip right to closing arguments, which lost along strict party lines. But even as their party split on the Lewinsky question, Republicans scored a small victory when...
...help thinking, Are these people really gay, or is it Memorex? When contacted by TIME, Anne Paulk refused to identify the woman with whom she had had a serious affair and conceded that her ties to women in college were "more emotional than sexual" anyway. But she insists "they would have led to sexual relationships" had they continued. Her husband, a former Kinko's manager now with Exodus, is more defensive about his wife's credentials. "It doesn't matter whether she dated 400 women or one. She was a lesbian." So there...