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Word: licensees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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A Chevrolet Celebrity, deadheading back to Boston from Logan Airport, is pulled over by a Boston policeman. The offense: an expired inspection sticker; the fine: $50. But not for a car bearing license plate STATE 1 that moments earlier had Massachusetts' favorite son riding in the rear passenger seat. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: Can I See Your Registration? | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

No big deal, until the Boston Herald ran a picture of the Chevy with its spanking-new inspection sticker in the window and the Governor and his driver standing nearby. Headline: DUKE FAILS TO STICK TO INSPECT LAW. Before long, the crack drive-time team at one of Cape Cod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: Can I See Your Registration? | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

For nearly two decades, the name Cray Research has been synonymous with supercomputers, those lightning-fast machines used for everything from locating oil deposits to designing nuclear warheads. Not only had Cray seized nearly two-thirds of the world market for number crunchers in the $5 million- to-$25 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Chip off the Old Block | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

There is certainly much to question in Saranow's handling of tax cases that the IRS brought against two rivals of Guess. In 1985 Saranow, acting on a tip from Guess, launched a criminal probe of Jeff Hamilton, Inc., a Los Angeles- based company that once made clothes under a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Delinquent Taxmen | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

Overall, these jurisdictions hope to raise an extra $5.1 billion next year. More than a third of that would be levied in just three Northeastern states -- Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut. The main sources of new revenue are so-called sin taxes on smoking and drinking. Confronting a deficit of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dread My Lips Not Bush's, but those of the Governors asking for taxes | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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