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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Originally run out of a post office box and an answering service, JCA now has a good-sized office replete with a FAX number and a Telex machine. Chung says he doesn't have to meet his clients in the airport hotel anymore...

Author: By Eric Berman, | Title: On the Make With Ski Trips, Watches and Elvis | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...impoverished Japan. Tange's first realized design was archetypally postwar: the Hiroshima Peace Center. * Finished in stages during the early 1950s, the complex is a complete preview, in miniature,of Tange's architectural career. Nearly all of his low-rise, high-modern ideas are on display: the International Style box, the inverted cone, the rough concrete pillars, the swooping concrete shell. The details have a light touch; the forms are blessedly simple. Tange's best designs embody heavenward sweep, a figurative and literal uplift. The central feature of a printing plant in Numazu (1954) is a great set of steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: An Elegant Sweep Toward Heaven | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...More than three-fourths of those surveyed said Government "should play a more active role" in such areas as health care, poverty, housing and education. Most surprising of all, 60% said they would "support increased spending for social programs even if it would require an increase in taxes" (see box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Reagan Administration... A Change in the Weather | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

What is jammed up nostrils, supposedly provides a jolt, and isn't cocaine? Presenting Ener-B, an intranasal gel loaded with vitamin B12 and sold in health stores for $12 a twelve-dose box. Like '60s celebrities who swore by B12 shots, enthusiasts claim the new nose job supplies a burst of energy. Absurd, say experts, and the FDA is investigating. Most people have a five- year B12 supply stored in their livers; excess simply gets excreted. "If you buy this gel," sniffs Dr. Victor Herbert of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, "you're going to have the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: New Nostril Nostrum | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

...buying equipment and services from companies as diverse as Sony, GTE and Panasonic. Today at least 60% of all telephones purchased in the U.S. have one or more sophisticated features. Says Christopher Jackson, a telephone expert at the Yankee Group, a Boston market-research firm: "The plain old black box is a relic of the past. People want their telephones to do something other than place calls and receive calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telephones Get Smart | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

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