Word: avid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every Japanese businessman overseas is partly an economic intelligence agent who is expected to pick up all the news about new products, processes and practices. The Japanese in New York are avid readers and clippers of U.S. newspapers, newsmagazines and Government publications. One favorite: Commerce Business Daily, which lists Government contract awards and subcontracting leads. Fairly typically, Shinichi Uozumi, president of Dentsu Corp. of America, a branch of Japan's largest ad agency, gets up at 5 a.m. so that he can read for two hours before setting out on foot for his office...
...known ways of desegregating should be considered, "including busing." The mere mention of the word caused outrage in Charlotte, and by the time the judge actually ordered the start of busing last year, he was all but a pariah to many in the community. Though he is an avid golfer (9 or 10 handicap), rumor had it that he was unable to pick up a foursome. McMillan denies that. But pickets on his lawn did demand his impeachment; there were telephoned death threats and ultimately police guards...
...1970s will become the era of the young marrieds. They will provide a huge market for minimal-cost housing: mobile homes, or tiny town houses and apartments in the far-out suburbs. Builders estimate that construction of such units may have to double from present levels. "Young marrieds are avid consumers," notes Adman Victor Bloede, president of Manhattan's Benton & Bowles. "They buy everything." They also borrow heavily. In, particular, they will want appliances and furniture, pots and dishes, infants' wear and home entertainment items as diverse as Tia Maria and tape recorders...
...avid Segal fan, Gordon had nothing but praise for Love Story, as he recommended the book to Harvard students and alumni. "The average Harvard man may be too intellectual. Love Story shows how life is a lot more simple than you think it is," Gordon said yesterday...
...swarms of students arrived just as the U.S. produced a nationwide surplus of teachers in many fields. When the university set out to hire 1,000 more teachers last spring, a single ad in the New York Times drew 4,000 responses, many of them from young Ph.D.s avid to help C.U.N.Y. effect social change and get well paid for doing...