Word: account
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Medlock, a journalist who in 1980 was working for Quest magazine when it formed a Giraffe society to reward the intrepid. When the magazine folded in 1981, Medlock nurtured the neck-stretching idea with a little money from supporters and began persuading radio stations to air a short account of Giraffes' achievements, recorded by personalities such as Candice Bergen and John Denver. Today the exploits are regularly broadcast by more than 500 stations...
...staff of 2,700 salesmen operates out of 131 branch offices throughout Japan, handling 4.8 million individual and 200,000 corporate accounts. In addition, the company has a 2,600-strong force of part-time saleswomen, mostly middle-aged, who troop from door to door, hawking stocks and bonds. This corps was established 30 years ago, when the company sought to spur personal investment by distributing savings chests to Japanese households. The local saleswoman held the keys to savers' chests. Each month she came by to empty the chest and place the money in the customer's Nomura account...
...report, prepared with the help of 200 doctors, nutritionists and researchers, is the most comprehensive governmental review yet of the connection between diet and health. Though little in it is really new, its very heft is impressive. Diet, the report states, helped account for more than two-thirds of the 2.1 million deaths in the U.S. last year. Poor nutritional habits are strongly implicated in five of the nation's top ten killers: coronary heart disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, diabetes and some cancers. Excessive alcohol use is linked to three other leading causes of death: cirrhosis of the liver, accidents...
...articles are a bit like letters to the world, and sometimes the world writes back. A year ago, TIME published excerpts from the best-selling book Life and Death in Shanghai, the gripping account of Author Nien Cheng's ordeal during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. When Cheng, who now lives in Washington, opened her mailbox a few weeks ago, she found a package of some 50 letters from sixth-graders in Alberta, Canada, who were deeply moved by her story. They wrote after Teacher Loretta Hofmann used TIME's excerpts last semester in a history course on China at Airdrie...
...dozen whales washed up on Cape Cod last fall, their deaths were attributed to paralytic shellfish poisoning that probably passed up the food chain through tainted mackerel consumed by the whales. Carpets of algae can turn square miles of water red, brown or yellow. Some scientists speculate that the account in Exodus 7: 20 of the Nile's indefinitely turning red may refer to a red tide...