Organizations have always needed a record of their communications. No
doubt ancient Roman merchants had slaves making copies of letters, the
way
Tom Standage
(in another great book) tells us aristocrats did, turning senatorial
correspondence into a form of proto-Facebook. Much later, JoAnne tells
us, some businesses used a pretty amazing system: outgoing letters would
be dampened, placed between the pages of a big book, and squeezed with a
screw press to create a sort of reprint.
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Peterk
Dallas, Tx
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"The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition.
They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations."
Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978.