Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed legislation would also prevent states from setting minimum premium rates. This might encourage property and liability insurers to experiment with "mass-merchandising" techniques-selling policies by mail, for example, with no agents involved-and also with writing group policies, as life and health insurers commonly do. At present, property and liability insurers have no incentive to try these strategies; they are in effect forbidden by some state authorities to pass to consumers the savings in costs that might result...
...bill is favored by the AFL-CIO but is anathema to the right wing of the G.O.P.: it would allow a single local of craftsmen-for example, carpenters-to picket and thus close down an entire building project. The White House received more than half a million pieces of mail opposing the "common situs" picketing bill. Said one adviser to the President's campaign: "If he doesn't veto situs picketing, he's dead...
...ignored the fact that Ottawa's ambassadors to Washington have periodically talked about the difficulties between the two neighbors in much the way that Porter did. By and large, Canadian editorial opinion endorsed Porter's candor. Describing Trudeau's remarks as "stunning brutality," the Toronto Globe & Mail editorialized: "Mr. Porter has made no attempt to tell Canada what to do. He merely told reporters of American concerns, most of which he had taken up with the Canadian government. Which is precisely what he was sent to Ottawa to do." Added the Ottawa Journal: "For his warning...
...main task of an intern is the answering of constituents' mail," Francis said...
...guarantee that yesterday was meteorological aberration of the first order. When I was a little kid going to grammar school near here, I could depend on at least a half-dozen days every winter when the snow was too intense to even think about taking in the mail, never mind tunneling over to school...