Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some critics for an alleged methodical execution of much of the entire class of former professionals, tradesmen, civil servants and soldiers. There were indications in both directions. The Cambodian revolution evidently has forced [those city dwellers] to conform to an austere standard of hard manual labor: no money, no mail system, no telephone service, no books, almost no individual property, no advanced education, little or no religion, and none of the freedoms accepted or at least professed by most of the rest of the world." One Cambodian admitted to Dudman that he had seen some "travelers" who looked wealthy...
...concerning the identities of the athletes. On December 11th, the AAU released an official statement confirming the Times story, in which it claimed that the news of the suspensions had not been made public in order to allow time for each of the athletes to be notified by certified mail. The AAU refused at this time, as it continues to do, to release the names of the swimmers involved...
...multitudes of happy souls, Santa Claus did not pop down the chimney this year. He squeezed into the mailbox. It was history's greatest mail-order spending spree, and despite the catalogues' enticements to decadence and conspicuous frivolity, Americans for the most part ordered up gifts that tended to be more tenable than trendy, disproving the adage that there's no fool like a Yule fool. Said Bergdorf Goodman Executive Vice President Leonard Hankin: "This was the kind of Christmas where people were investing in things because they were not so sure of what was going...
...most part, however, mail-order buyers concentrated on lesser gifts that were both of practical use and lasting value. Five-year-old Atlanta-based Kaleidoscope Inc., which mailed 1 million catalogues, a weight of nine tons, found that an increasing number of women bought not only presents for other people but also a few gifts for themselves. Among Kaleidoscope's bestsellers: china, glasses, flatware, tablecloths. Also popular were luggage and other travel items. Several cataloguers reported an upsurge in sales of packaged cheese and fruits. A $5 chocolate bar divided into sections marked with their calories and called Sweet...
...check is in the mail The Gore plan only delays the impending bankruptcy of the program; it doesn't solve it. Even if Gore gets the country through the retirement of the baby boomers, the cost of Social Security will continue to rise (because people are living longer), forcing what may be more painful reforms the next time around...