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Word: advisee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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In Benton Harbor, Mich., the Whirlpool Corp. uses a staff of telephone-trained technicians to field questions from customers around the country about problems with its line of home appliances. In Fort Washington, Pa., the Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. employs a battery of researchers to handle 800-number telephone queries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ringing Up Sales | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

To Ronald Reagan, on his first official visit to Europe, I would like to advise keeping well in mind that America's friends are those who do not care whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat. He should be wary of adulators and of those who, hoping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Be Patient with Our Contradictions: Giulio Andreotti to Reagan | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

Financial Collection Agencies has 85 branches around the world, and Golditch's Maiden office reaches out over much of New England. It takes on about 45,000 cases a year, involving $20 million, and recovers about 20% to 30%, of which it may keep as much as 50%. Once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Way of Debt | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

The standard threnody for grand travel always sounds like that. In his book Abroad, Fussell argues that "travel is hardly possible any more." Once, the traveler embarked upon the world with a sense of spaciousness and mystery. The modern world's adventuring began with the great explorers sailing west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is the Going Still Good? | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

(7 of 12) Harder-line members are Thatcher, Defense Secretary Nott and Conservative Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson. Parkinson's presence in the inner council struck many observers as unusual, but, by virtue of his party job, he keeps close tabs on the opinions of individual Tory M.P.s, and therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now, Alas, the Guns of May | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

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