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Word: businessese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The use of dormitory rooms and phones in operating businesses was forbidden long before HSA's first appearance in the fall of 1957. Businessmen in the Square complained that students, who didn't have to pay taxes for their "offices," were given an unfair competitive edge; the practice of using...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Harvard Student Agencies | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

The HSA, however, provided a cheap and effective method for students to conduct businesses legally. HSA would supply office space in exchange for a cut of the profits. Student business was thus freed from its greatest restrictions; HSA expanded from 144 employees in 1957-58 to 396 last year.

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Harvard Student Agencies | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

Burke complains that there are already "more restrictions on HSA than on any other living organization." The Agencies, he says, are not permitted to compete with Harvard Square businesses or with the "central core organs" of student publications.

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Harvard Student Agencies | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

Just as it dominates the U.S. chocolate market, the Hershey Corp.-and the ever-present sweet scent of its products-dominates the town of Hershey, in the undulating Pennsylvania Dutch country. Town and company alike were confected by patriarchal Milton S. Hershey, an ambitious farmboy who learned to make taffies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: A Sweet Business | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the scare has started many Japanese businessmen off on a new boom-the "gloom boom." They fearfully suggest that their businesses will collapse because their annual growth rate may fall from 30% to a mere 15%. And though Japan's foreign trade balance in December was the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Abroad: Following Henry Ford | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

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