Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chicken-or-Egg. The industry is also experimenting with other new marketing techniques. Boston's Keystone Custodian Funds, Inc. has built up a force of 500 salesmen to sell a combined package of mutual-fund shares and life insurance plans. In February, Dreyfus Corp. started a new fund with a scaled-down commission rate that is being sold as a payroll-deduction plan to companies, unions and trade associations. The industry's trade association, the Investment Company Institute, is conducting a $400,000 advertising campaign in newspapers and magazines, designed to convince the public that, for example...
Every critic has his own definition of his function and impact. Says Martha Duffy, of our Books section: "I don't think of myself as a custodian of people's opinions. I'm trying to tell people who are interested in books what's around and what I think of it. I have no illusions about changing people. The person to whom I address myself is anyone who wants to read...
...magazines have proliferated, and striptease has become a common art form in nightclubs. The pilgrims who visit Rome during a Holy Year are granted plenary indulgences for their sins, but it would hardly do for them to encounter too many temptations in the very city that the Pope called "custodian of memories which are among the most sacred...
...stupefying contrasts, an earthy and unschooled Ukrainian peasant who came to wield power undreamt of by the czars. He was a custodian of the nuclear peace, yet he frequently rattled the Soviet saber, once bellowing that Communism would "bury" America. He served the party and the government with an iron hand, and in the 1930s helped send thousands to slave labor camps. Despite that, he is remembered as the crucial transitional figure who led the Soviet Union from an evil era of Stalinist tyranny toward a more moderate form of Communism. Near the end of his life, in the controversial...
...after Julie Nixon Eisenhower showed up for work as a third-grade teacher at Atlantic Beach Elementary School near Jacksonville, Fla., she and a custodian were moving a book cart. It toppled over, crushing the big toe on Julie's left foot. Posing for her first picture as a housewife in the Atlantic Beach house that she and Ensign David Eisenhower have rented while he serves aboard the guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Albany, Julie showed off her large plaster cast to photographers. Then, after learning that her cast may have to remain on from four to six weeks, Julie...