Search Details

Word: avise (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

How much can the new campaign really diminish inflation? That, of course, depends upon how vigorously it is pursued and how much price fixing the Government can actually uncover. Trustbusting crusades are always vulnerable to political pressures, a point underscored when the Nixon White House prodded the Justice Department to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTITRUST: Jail for More Price Fixers? | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

When my manager, Ronald A. Wilford, brought me to the United States in 1955 for my first appearance on this continent, he advised me that in the majority of instances I would be introducing an art form that might be totally unfamiliar to most of my audience. The pantomimist was...

Author: By Marcel Marceau, | Title: A Universal Language | 4/16/1974 | See Source »

Why is ITT letting go so cheaply? One reason, no doubt, is that Government-ordered divestiture sales rarely bring much money: buyers, knowing that the company has to sell, hold out for a low price. ITT agreed to sell Levitt, Avis, Inc. and other businesses as part of the violently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Levitt's Buy-Back | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Like Stegner, DeVoto was a Harvardman who left the West as soon as he decently could. He joined the faculty at Breadloaf Writers' Conference, beginning in 1932. He was briefly editor of the Saturday Review, and for two decades the occupant of the Harper's magazine column called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Go East, Young Man | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

The Wolfpack and their constituents, adopting the Avis we-try-harder mentality, prepared for the contest with high spirit and keen concentration. Bumper stickers in Raleigh admonished: STOP THE WALTON GANG. Though the event was televised nationally, some 4,000 State fans journeyed by chartered plane, bus, private car and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wolves and Bears | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next