Word: franchisee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farmer, 49, an effervescent backslapper who never misses an opportunity to promote himself or his candidate, is the master of modern political fund raising: a person who can franchise a nationwide pyramid of captains and lieutenants to seek out $1,000 donations, the maximum permitted by law. So far he...
Public dissatisfaction with the Postal Service has encouraged private firms to compete wherever the law permits. Mail Boxes Etc., the largest franchise chain of private postal outlets, with some 600 locations in 40 states, sells stamps, wraps packages, rents mailboxes and transmits copies of documents over telephone lines with facsimile...
John Tinkler sniffs. "Hell," he says, drawing the word out into two syllables ripe with reluctance and dismay. "If someone really and truly believes that his speech is keeping him from getting along in the world, I suppose he must change it. But he isn't paying any attention to...
Meanwhile, brown-haired, brown-eyed, Grambling-educated Williams dutifully reported to the worst expansion franchise in pro football history, the 2-26 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When two years later he lifted the Bucs to within a game of a Super Bowl, but no nearer, his reward was a rotten watermelon...
Downey, 55, seems oddly cast as the pit bull of TV talk-show hosts. The son of an Irish tenor popular with radio audiences during the 1930s and '40s, he worked for a time as a singer and songwriter. His eclectic, not to say bizarre, career has also included stints...