Word: mail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over a three-week period. They were given menus without prices, but wound up paying an average of $33 for their meals, about $7.50 more than the usual cost. "We were betting on people's good taste and their sense of fair play," says Rowitch. He is going to mail another 6,000 flyers in the coming weeks...
...these are so, well, imprecise. When the ballot comes in the mail the coach thinks, "Well, who killed us this year?" and to refresh his memory, he often has to refer to stats instead of intangibles...
Other questions don't place us out of this world, but in a distant city. "What's your zipcode? Air mail? Do we have to dial '9' to call you? How much is a taxi there? Is it in Cambridge?" Or best of all, "the Quad, not far from one of America's most prestigious institutions of higher learning...
...According to several on the 35-member staff, she settled down as the magazine neared takeoff. Initially a bimonthly with a 200,000 circulation, it is supposed to go monthly by 1990 and ultimately grow to 1 million subscribers. Can it? Executive Vice President Marc Liu reports that direct-mail solicitations have brought a high 5% return rate. The first issue contains 77 pages of paid advertising, including such blue chips as Cadillac, BMW and Volvo. And, of course, there are the current census projections: by 1990, more adult women will be over 40 than under. Says George Hunt...
...cried," said Mrs. Jansen. "My daughter's death has now become more of a reality to him." Later that day Jansen visited his sister's husband and her three young children. He gave them his Olympic participant's medal. At home the postman keeps bringing carts of mail full of sympathy and admiration. Jansen may have fallen on the ice, but the world would reach out if it could to lift...