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Word: firm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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McNulty, of Lake Mary, Fla., captains the track and cross-country teams and co-manages the Eliot House Grille. An Economics concentrator, McNulty said yesterday he plans to land a job in a Florida firm...

Author: By Richard P. Nagel, | Title: McNulty and Owens Win Elections for '80 Marshals | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...looked over his shoulder at me, through scratched plexiglass that held him safe from his fares, with this smile on his face so old and firm like he knew I didn't speak the language...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...Cambridge by his close friend Guy Burgess. "I was persuaded that I could best serve the cause of antifascism by joining him in his work for the Russians." It seemed to him at the time, Blunt explained, that the Communist Party and the Soviet Union "constituted the only firm bulwark against fascism, since the Western democracies were taking an uncertain and compromising attitude toward Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Spy with a Clear Conscience | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...agency had offended every businessman in his state. He noted that Louisville's Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., in answer to a subpoena, spent three years and $800,000 to ship the FTC 14,000 pounds of documents. Chicago-area Businessman Joseph Sugarman, the owner of a mail-order firm selling home computers and burglar alarms, took out half-page ads this month in papers around the country to cry: "The FTC is harassing small businesses, but I'm not going to sit back and take it!" He claims his company has been threatened with a $100,000 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...started a company that ten years ago had revenues of $6.5 million; in fiscal 1979 they hit $445 million; next year after acquiring a firm that leases containers for ships, they are expected to reach $650 million. Grossman leases and manages vehicles and now commands a larger fleet than the U.S. Postal Service: 275,000 autos, trucks, trailers, forklifts and refrigerated vans. His customers include 85% of the FORTUNE 500 and thousands of other firms from Mexico's Yucatán to Canada's Yukon and into Europe. More than that, from his glass-walled office overlooking aptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: Ideas Are All We Have | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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