Word: firm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late 1976, Somoza's image in this country had so deteriorated that he hired the New York public relations firm of Norman, Lawrence, Patterson, and Farrell, Inc. to shore it up. And although the State Department cited the Nicaraguan government for several human rights violations in the early days of President Carter's May 1977 crusade, 12 million dollars in economic aid in 1977 and 1978 were nevertheless added to a total of more than $300 million that Nicaragua has received from the U.S. government since the second World War. The reason was that some of Somoza's powerful friends...
...purpose of these impertinent propositions is supposed to be market research. An Ohio firm that sells animal-shaped plastic planters wondered whether sales would increase if its clerks hugged every customer...
Banayan, who now holds a job at a transportation firm to pay his bills, said he knows many Iranian students who are also in bad financial straights. He added that his tuition should have been paid by rent on a building in Iran that his father had leased to the government under the Shah...
...performed easily by company employees at minimal cost. The systems also save money by automatically routing long-distance calls through the most cost-efficient trunk lines. Citicorp's 1,500-phone Danray system is expected to save $10 million over the next decade. Another major multinational firm installed a 2,500-phone system for $3 million and expects the savings to balance that cost in three years...
...high proportion of divorced people (hence the number of boats with names like Second Life and New Beginning). At New York's 79th Street boat basin, skippers of the 80-strong year-round fleet include a drug-company officer, a masseuse, the owner of a thriving fashion firm, an inventor, a rabbi, an actress, a TV producer, advertising and insurance executives, a stock analyst, a nurse and a porno movie queen. Most started off by renting a boat for summer weekends. Then they became addicted, but kept an apartment as an anchor to windward. Then they gave...