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...name Levi has long been to jeans what Xerox is to copiers and Scotch to tape. After all, Levi Strauss invented denim jeans, and the San Francisco business he founded in 1853 created an industry. Even during the designer-jean < craze, no-nonsense Levi held on to its spot as the top jeans manufacturer. The company now controls about 24% of a $6 billion annual market...
...barrage of criticism has had its effect on big-time treasure hunters; even Fisher now includes archaeologists in his crew. At the Atocha site, Archaeologist Duncan Mathewson is carefully noting the position of each artifact and labeling each find. He has marked the site with grids, using yellow tape and pipes, and pinpointed each piece of the ancient hull...
...sounded, or uses one of 3,000 standard abbreviations to represent a familiar word or phrase. For example, W stands for "with," KR for "consider." These abbreviations are printed on narrow strips of self-folding paper. In CAT systems, the keystrokes are also recorded electronically on a tape or magnetic disk, then fed into a computer that expands the stenographic shorthand into English and prints out a transcript that needs only minor editing...
...tape, a transcript of which was released byNASA on yesterday, offered no verbal evidence thatany crew members other than Smith knew anythingwas abnormal prior to his single exclamation 73seconds after launch--the very second that groundcontrollers lost all communication with the craft...
...recently as July 17, NASA said its reviewsof the voice tape indicated that the crew wasunaware of the events preceding the breakup of theorbiter...