Over at the Journal, you can watch a video of the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik-along with many others, including Warren Buffett-talking about Brooks. “The Xerox men say, ‘If you’re frightened of it, it won’t work,’ and that’s pretty much right. “I was frightened of it at first,” one Xerox “operator” tells Brooks. The book is a collection of 12 stories that. From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion 12 classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. A bad mispuff can occasionally put a piece of the paper in contact with hot parts, igniting it and causing an alarming cloud of white smoke to issue from the machine in such a case, the operator is urged to do nothing, or, at most, to use a small fire extinguisher that is attached to it, since the fire burns itself out comparatively harmlessly if left alone, whereas a bucket of water thrown over a 914 may convey potentially lethal voltages to its metal surface. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street is a book written by John Brooks. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks - Books on Google Play Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street John Brooks. English Aug ASIN: B00M047J9E MP364 kbps 16h 53m 431.18 MB.

The most common malfunction is a jamming of the supply of copy paper, which is rather picturesquely called a “mispuff,” because each sheet of paper is raised into position to be inscribed by an interior puff of air, and the malfunction occurs when the puff goes wrong.

Technologically, the 914 is so complex (more complex, some Xerox salesmen insist, than an automobile) that it has an annoying tendency to go wrong, and consequently Xerox maintains a field staff of thousands of repairmen who are presumably ready to answer a call on short notice. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks 4.0 (9) Paperback (Reprint) 16.99 18.99 Save 11 Hardcover 34.99 Paperback 16.99 eBook 14.49 Audiobook 0.

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