Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...negotiators as denying flatly that the treaties would give the U.S. the right to intervene militarily or even send its warships through on a priority basis after 1999. When the cable hit the headlines, anti-treaty Senators howled in outrage, and backers of the canal pacts groaned. Democratic Senator Frank Church warned that the apparent differences between the U.S. and Panamanian views of the pacts had to be resolved quickly. "Otherwise," he said, "this will be a tangle, then a morass and finally a legislative catastrophe...
Philadelphia's tough-talking Democratic mayor, Frank Rizzo, has long been as hard on syntax as he is on the "vermin" he blames for his city's problems with crime and decline. During his campaign for a second four-year term in 1975, for instance, the blustery former police chief offered Philadelphians a typically unpunctuated promise: "Just wait after November you'll have a front row seat because I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot...
...Americans for Democratic Action and Rizzo foes failed to oust "hizzoner" by means of a recall drive last year. Now, seeking to head off any attempt by Rizzo to maneuver around the Philadelphia mayoralty's two-term restriction, A.D.A. is trying yet another weapon: The Sayings of Chairman Frank, a 100-page compendium of Rizzoisms published last week that is intended to make municipal voters laugh and the city's mayor weep. A sampler...
...Cincinnati Enquirer had a problem. Circulation was slipping, down about 5% in three years. So in 1975 the Enquirer hired Frank N. Magid Associates, a Marion, Iowa, consulting firm, to find a solution. On Magid's advice, the paper added more local news, more sports coverage, more consumer reporting and its first restaurant reviews. Results are not all in yet, but during the past year alone circulation climbed...
...wags his finger in the air and tells you there's something wrong with your paper, and he's bringing in this expert to tell you how to straighten it out," says Chicago Daily News Editor in Chief Jim Hoge, who has generally ignored the advice Frank Magid has given his paper during its recent radical redesign. "Before you know it, the expert starts telling you which is left and which is right...