Word: catered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Macy's Mr. Straus should not play the part of the indignant customer, but the part of the overburdened salesman, who is usually expected to do the work of three people for the salary of one. Salespeople no longer have time to cater to the individual customer, and the customer knows this. What could Mr. Straus do without his poorly paid 4,828 salespeople...
...inaccessibility would not have surprised a fan-mail-writing friend who never missed her Vienna appearances-Sigmund Freud. Yvette's wastrel father deserted the family when she was 13, and she vowed to marry only a man who would "cater to my every caprice," and that's the sort of self-effacing servitor she finally...
...nuclear war," said the statement. "We see the Jenkins episode as a case of human weakness. If there is a security factor involved, let that be dealt with on its own terms and let it not serve chiefly as an excuse for dwelling on this one episode to cater to the prurient curiosity or to the self-righteousness of part of the public...
Back home the cigarette makers continue to introduce new brands to cater to the capricious tastes of 70 million U.S. smokers, with big emphasis on filters. Liggett & Myers is testing a charcoal filter menthol brand called Devon, and Philip Morris is marketing a charcoal filter called Galaxy in Texas. Filter cigarettes now hold about 70% of the U.S. market, but the charcoal filters, which account for some 7% of sales, have had uneven success...
Bill Moyers (he was christened Billy but dislikes the diminutive) is a slim, pallidly handsome Baptist lay preacher who has directed the intellectual side of L.B.J.'s shop with quiet efficiency since Johnson moved into the White House. He supervises such speechwriters as Richard Goodwin, Douglass Cater and Horace Busby, tosses in the scriptural citations of which Lyndon is so fond. Better than any other staffer, he knows Johnson's mercurial moods, manages to assuage the boss with well-reasoned argument, never shouts or panics. Yet such self-control comes at a price: Moyers suffers from a chronic...