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When mobile phones became popular in the early 1980s, rental-car firms embraced the new technology as a potential profitmaker. But demand for phone- equipped cars, particularly from executives, has been lower than expected. Says Avis Spokesman John Britton: "We found that if a businessman is on the road, that means he needs to see his clients in person. So what does he need a phone for?" Avis has dropped phone-equipped cars, and Hertz has trimmed its fleet from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rental Cars: Hello, Operator, I'M Lost | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

Hurdles: 1-DeSantis (B)8:04; 2-Britton (B) 8:05; 3-Vance...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Tracksters Thrash Brown, 80-56, in Show of Depth | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...average length of stay for residents of the house is two years, Randy H. Britton, a tenant of the building, said yesterday...

Author: By Miriam F. Clark, | Title: Mellen St. Residents Contest Eviction; Case Set to Go Before District Court | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...house was originally founded as a residence for foreign students, and has been occupied for the past 15 years by residents sharing household chores and food expenses, Britton said...

Author: By Miriam F. Clark, | Title: Mellen St. Residents Contest Eviction; Case Set to Go Before District Court | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...Strout has been rising to that task at least since the early 1920s, when, not long out of Harvard, he parked his Model T on the ellipse behind the White House and joined the local Monitor crew. He trod the White House beat while Warren G. Harding entertained Nan Britton in a coat closet, and when tight-lipped Calvin Coolidge gravely turned over a ceremonial spade of earth one Arbor Day and, asked to say a few words, pronounced: "That's a fine fishworm." He called Franklin D. Roosevelt "the greatest President of my time," respected Dwight Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: TRB at 80 | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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