Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just in case anyone forgot, the greeting-card industry is busy reminding people that Sunday is Mother's Day. Of course everyone will want to pick up cards for Mom, Wife and Grandma. But what about sisters and favorite aunts? Sure. There are Mother's Day cards for them too, and a host of greetings for a mother-in-law. How about someone expecting a baby in July? No problem. Any number of companies make Mother's Day cards for mothers-to-be. And why should Pop feel left out and have to wait until June for his special...
...business is better than greeting cards at finding imaginative ways to package and promote an old product. The leading companies, Hallmark of Kansas City and American Greetings of Cleveland, have roots that go back almost to the turn of the century, but they strive to be as innovative as fledgling Silicon Valley computer firms. The cardmakers are experimenting with different styles, coming up with novel reasons for people to buy their wares and using new technology that enables cards to play tunes or talk. Hallmark offers 1,200 varieties of cards for Mother's Day, the year's fourth-biggest...
...statement, which includes the names and bursar card numbers of the activists, comes in response to last Friday's mandate by the Faculty Council that the sit-in participants identify themselves and their participation to the deans of the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...dancer on the bandstand and a tiered cake with a miniature space shuttle and a model car smashed into the icing on top. This whimsy apparently was reference to his wife's nickname, "Crash," and his, "Smash." He sent bowls of fruit to people in the marina with his card, which has JOHN "SMASH" THEURER printed on it. By that time, a lot of people were so upset they threw the fruit overboard. One morning, very early, he appeared on a spit of land across from the marina with a crew and some bulldozers and began tearing out mangroves, which...
...whichever of the graduate school raise the quality of undergraduate education both "in the nature of what happens in the classroom," and in helping to attract professors by using a high quality graduate student program as a drawing card, said John R. Marquand, secretary to the Faculty Council...