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Word: chargees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ignoring today's mature, spirited, no longer provincial Los Angeles Times opens Griffith to a charge of Eastern seaboard provincialism. Griffith's "by common consent" certainly does not include those of us privileged to read and enjoy the finest newspaper in the West, if not the entire country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1977 | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Covert CIA payments to other key individuals abroad have been commonplace. Among the recipients: the late President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Viet Nam; President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (formerly the Congo); Holden Roberto, head of a losing faction in the Angola civil war; and Eduardo Frei, former President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cutting Off The King's Dole | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

American Duty. But the vast majority of Americans will clear up their Christmas bills with only minor difficulty and then launch on another round of credit buying-or just never stop. In the modern U.S., the Affluent Society has become the Credit Society, and an insistence on buying only what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MERCHANTS OF DEBT | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Culture, virtue and vice are all available on credit. International Art Registry, an organization that authenticates art works, in the past six months has begun offering an Art Card on which patrons can charge up to half the price of a painting or sculpture, and take as long as five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MERCHANTS OF DEBT | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Discreet Billing. In a less hallowed vein, several Las Vegas hotel-casinos issue their own credit cards to customers who visit several times a year. By showing his card, a holder can get a room when the hotel is ostensibly sold out (the card identifies him as a preferred customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MERCHANTS OF DEBT | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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