Aloha
Company Will Tell Bush, Gore, When To Shut Up.
(10/3/2000)
During the presidential
debate tonight, George W. Bush and Al Gore will be glancing nervously at
the product of a tiny Aloha company, Alzatex.
Alzatex is supplying
the speech timers for the first and second presidential debates.
The Alzatex
timekeeper looks like a traffic light facing the debaters. When the yellow
light comes on, whoever is speaking has 30 seconds to wrap it up. When
the red light comes on, they have ten seconds.
And then moderator
Jim Lehrer will presumably cut them off.
Alzatex owner
Terry Lang built his first speech timer for the Lake Oswego city council
in 1993, and he has sold versions of that timer to cities all over the
US and several other countries. The system usually costs $200 to $10,000,
and the presidential debates are paying top dollar because the units were
ordered within the last few weeks.
You can hear
the debate at 6 p.m. tonight on 750-KXL.
(Updated 10/3/2000)
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