Word: mailboxes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Those relentless credit-card offers left in your mailbox dropped 17% in the second quarter compared with last year, according to mail tracker Synovate. Who's being ignored? The less affluent: 52% of households with income below $50,000 have gotten an offer this year vs. 66% last year. Even if you already have plenty of cards, you're not immune. Card companies are taking a hard look at customers' credit profiles, especially in the areas with the most house-price deterioration. American Express typically cuts the credit limit on about 4% of its cards each year. That figure...
...Earlier this month, there appeared in my mailbox in New York City what seemed like an interesting white paper, “The Research Library in the Digital Age.” It was written by Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer university professor and director of the Harvard University Library, and was forwarded to me by Frances D. Ferguson, chair of the Overseas Committee to Visit the University Library...
...TIME! one week after your green issue, I find in my mailbox the TIME 100, complete with five--count 'em, five--varying covers. How many tons of extra paper did that require? Joyce Jensen, SANTA...
...someone placed a memo in her mailbox that listed her base salary-about $44,000 a year-and that of three male colleagues of equal if not lesser tenure and title. They earned from $53,000 to $62,000. "I was floored," says Ledbetter, 70. "I just didn't know...
...know the drill. As election day approaches, glossy pamphlets clog your mailbox. Annoying prerecorded calls jam your answering machine. Nasty attack ads disturb your prime-time TV viewing. You are bombarded at every turn, and you take it all in, with only one responsibility in mind: remember to vote...