Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maintenance, has unfairly helped to sustain its dominance. That policy got IBM into trouble with the U.S. Justice Department, which in 1969 charged the company with monopolistic practices in a suit that is now in the trial stage. Last week officials in another country-India-discovered just how dear IBM holds its 100% philosophy. Rather than allow a minority Indian holding in its local manufacturing, sales and maintenance operations, the company decided to close up shop...
...advisers and advisees. Editors Linda Gray Sexton, the poet's elder daughter, and Lois Ames, a close friend and estate-designated biographer, make it quite clear that to be on the poet's mailing list could mean finding oneself embroiled in a passionate postal love affair. "Dearest dear De," "Dear One," "Dear Phil Baby," "Dear Wonderful Nolan!" "Dear wonderful lovely Tillie Olsen" are typical salutations. She lavished compliments, flattery and secrets, and expected to be repaid in kind. Like her poems, her letters were uninhibited pieces of herself offered " in deep fear of rejection...
...cover art, for one thing, is nightmarish--bright red lettering, a black-and-white checkerboard pattern spelling out "Elvis is King," and Costello himself feering out from a lurid yellow background. He clutches a Fender menacingly, and leans forward in that half-aggressive pigeon-toed stance so dear to the hearts of '50s rockers; his eyes are genuinely loony, wild and dangerous-looking, behind huge Buddy Holly horn-rims. No doubt about it--this guy is strange. Musically, too, the album has more than its share of outward cliches, from Phil Spectorish drum riffs to high-school rhythm guitar licks...
...Dear Crimson...
...Committee, Long steers them through the full Senate with consummate finesse. One favorite tactic is to load bills with amendments he is willing to jettison. As each proposal goes over board, Long ? the model of compromise and sweet reason ? exacts support for the points that are truly dear to his heart. Says Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "He cut his teeth on this institution, and he's probably the most skillful tactician on the floor in managing his bills...