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To handle the torrent of arriving mail, which turned some areas of the Sears Tower into replicas of a post office at Christmastime, the company hired 15 temporary employees just to open envelopes, sort the pictures according to age and sex, make photocopies and file them all in alphabetical order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chicago: A Sears Catalogue of Kids | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

Mr. N was just promoted to vice president in charge of sales at his college buddy's company. Mr. N is taking a long vacation-- --one whole year, in fact. One night he and Mrs. N drew up a list of cities they had heard about, and arranged them in...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: "And This One's at Faneuil Hall (Wish You Were Here)" | 4/30/1980 | See Source »

Among the candidates themselves, only an intricate arrangement for billings and credits prevents squabbles. For example: each candidate's literature also lists the entire slate. But not in alphabetical order, presumably because that would aid Francis Duehay and hurt David Wylie. So candidates begin the list with the name closest...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Buddy System | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Removing the mystique of a meaningful, message-laden blueprint leaves a mere bunch of letters--letters as alphabetical characters, letters as missives; Barth gleefully invests his puns with more significance than they deserve.

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Return To Sender | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Even so, voting will require considerable stamina. Some Democrats will have to travel 30 miles to a polling place -there is only one in each county -and wait up to two hours for their ballots, which can be a yard long and contain as many as 800 names. Just to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Playing the Florida Game | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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