Word: finder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haven't forgotten how to "point off," giving $10,000 to the finder of $500,000 is the equivalent of rewarding the finder of a $5 bill with a dime...
...become a natural part of people. It can make a person pause in his rush through life. It will help him to focus himself on some aspect of life, and in the process, enrich his life at that moment. This happens as you focus through the view finder. It's not merely the camera you are focusing; you are focusing yourself. That's an integration of your personality, right that second. Then when you touch the button, what's inside you comes out. It's the most basic form of creativity. Part...
...CONSTRUCTIVE ACTIONS A SHAREHOLDER CAN TAKE" INCLUDE A DETERMINED EFFORT TO FORCE SUCH AN AMERICAN COMPANY TO HALT INVOLVEMENT WITH "GOVERNMENTS THAT ENGAGE IN ACTIONS CONSIDERED REPRESSIVE OR INHUMANE." And, in the case of Gulf, we do not believe that Harvard should have to dispatch a fact-finder to investigate Portuguese colonial policies or Gulf's connection with the Portuguese government. PALC's view on Gulf's contribution to Portuguese oppression in Angola make it very clear that the University's profits accrued from Gulf's operations are indeed "blood money". It would, then, be immoral if the Corporation were...
...pocket-sized electronic calculator that almost instantaneously flashes answers in bright numbers. A tabletop clock that at the press of a button displays with lighted numerals the hour, minute and second in any of the world's 24 time zones. A transistorized depth-finder that tells the Sunday sailor in glowing red numbers exactly how many feet, or fathoms, of water lie under his keel. These futuristic devices, already on the market, are only samples of the dazzling consumer spin-offs from a totally new scientific field called "optoelectronics"-the marriage of modern optics with space-age electronics...
Albert Lee Murray, a compact, youthful, 55-year-old brown-skinned man, is seated in an Atlanta restaurant, helping a white, country-fresh waitress spell Heineken. Operating on what he calls his "literary radar," not his desegregation fact finder, Murray senses that any embarrassment the girl feels is offset by her relief and gratitude. "What she is really worried about," says Murray, "is some stern-eyed maitre d' and some evil-assed cat back in the kitchen!" It is a pleasure to hear the voice of experience. As an Air Force major, Murray administered a $37 million military budget...