Word: moms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier that season he had tried to reach Johnson at home during a rain-delayed game at Memorial Stadium, but only her mom was there...
Savings institutions started out in the early 19th century as the mom-and-pop shops of finance. At the time, the Industrial Revolution was spawning an urban working class that had no place to put its savings. Commercial banks were mostly uninterested in small accounts, preferring to deal with businessmen and property owners. As a result, philanthropists set up savings banks for working people. In his book Savings Banking, Franklin Ornstein, chairman of Central Federal Savings in Long Beach, N.Y., traces the origins of the industry to the formation in 1816 of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, which was started...
Just in case anyone forgot, the greeting-card industry is busy reminding people that Sunday is Mother's Day. Of course everyone will want to pick up cards for Mom, Wife and Grandma. But what about sisters and favorite aunts? Sure. There are Mother's Day cards for them too, and a host of greetings for a mother-in-law. How about someone expecting a baby in July? No problem. Any number of companies make Mother's Day cards for mothers-to-be. And why should Pop feel left out and have to wait until June for his special...
...been alert to changes in the American family. Says Richard Connor, executive vice president of American Greetings: "The divorce rate has brought about new families, single fathers and working mothers. These new relationships open up new avenues for card sending." One of Hallmark's Mother's Day cards shows Mom at her office. Both American Greetings and Hallmark have cards with messages to "Mom and Her Husband" or "Dad and His Wife...
Coke, like apple pie and mom, belongs...