Word: letters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...received a letter from Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci asking all Cambridge students to organize "a working committee calling for continued policing of the global atmosphere...
...prospective customer, but the company's brokers pushed him a little too far. Five years ago, the suburban Boston lawyer began an epic campaign to stop Merrill Lynch's brokers, as well as numerous rival callers, from peppering him with phone pitches. First he wrote a polite letter asking the company to desist, but still the calls came. Then he wrote a more threatening note, and still the calls came...
...Monaghan opened his first pizza outlet in Ypsilanti, Mich., the eccentric tycoon has been expanding his empire like a spinning wheel of pizza dough. But now that his Domino's chain has 5,100 stores and sales of $2.3 billion, Monaghan is suddenly ready to move on. In a letter to employees and franchise owners, the pizza king disclosed that he is looking for ways to sell Domino...
...produced an incredibly well-documented book, with 75 pages of endnotes. In his quest for detail, the author has even gone so far as to inquire of Dr. Peter F. Stevens, curator of Harvard's herbaria, the genus of a sprig of leaves that an admirer enclosed in a letter to Holmes. He also checked Harvard library records to determine exactly what day Holmes checked out a particularly important book on mysticism during his college days...
Reality: This statement is roughly akin to saying "I wrote a letter to the local paper supporting the right to burn the flag, and what do you know, the Supreme Court did exactly what I asked...