Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raised their own awareness. They learned that mail-order merchandise is the most common target for complaints (followed by automobiles, home repairs, government agencies, utility companies, landlords and retail stores). The columnists were only dimly aware of the magnitude of the mailorder problem until their get-together. Then passing mention of the phrase "five towels for a dollar" sent a tidal wave of groans across the hall...
Putnam's speech on Harvard's investments was also well received. There was no mention of the controversy over Harvard's investment in corporations with operations in South Africa...
...they have continued to benefit from the big money politics of the Republican Party, securing campaign contributions from men like W. Clement Stone and textile magnate Roger Milliken, not to mention the millions from Richard Viguerie's direct mail outfit...
...what amounts to a penny dreadful fantasy. If you stop and think about it, even if there were a nest of Nazis hiding out in South America, most of them would be pushing 80 by now, and quite incapable of the exertions required by this farflung, not to mention farfetched plot. You can't escape the thought that the largest danger they present these days lies not in the real world, but in the movie world. They are almost the last incontrovertibly evil figures left to tempt film producers, the last people we can all agree to hate...
...volunteer Complaint-Mobile workers are nonlawyers. But, as Volunteer Ernie Wallerstein points out, just being able to "mention the D.A.'s office gives you clout." Explains former Assistant District Attorney Ray Bonner, 36, who originally conceived the Complaint-Mobile project: "Many people simply can't afford lawyers, and they don't need them. They simply have to demand their rights. Most businesses know that people do not complain and even if they do, they'll go away if they lose Round 1. We're just helping them get what they should be able...