Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this homey and tenuous network tore apart, and the town with it, when the new owner, the Oxford County Telephone & Telegraph Co., announced it was replacing crank with dial. Before you could say d.a., a "Don't Yank the Crank" committee was formed. T shirts displaying that motto went on sale in Brad Hooper's village store. There were town meetings and more town meetings. Lawyers were hired, and briefs got filed with the public utilities commission to prevent the conversion to dial, and even void the sale...
...briefcase can even be used as a shield. Its tough synthetic fabric will withstand a .357 magnum bullet. To stymie any attempts to steal all this James Bond gadgetry, there is also an alarm that will sound six seconds after the case is ripped from the owner's grasp...
...politics and science and then, in its last incarnation, back to culture again. It built circulation from a few thousand shortly after its birth to a height of 660,000 in 1971; but since then it has repeatedly tried to shake off a doggedly loyal readership that an owner once dismissively described as "somebody's aunts," in order to improve its demographics and attract new advertising. Through all the changes of editorial focus, Saturday Review, as if emulating the mythology of its old emblem, refused...
...that he invites a sneaking wonder of the kind we reserve sometimes for natural phenomena. He runs the team the way Don Vito Corleone ran the rackets. He dismisses managers the way Bluebeard ditched wives. Steinbrenner has gone through nine managers in the ten years he has been principal owner of the Yankees...
...Steinbrenner's Yankees now display certain characteristics of Rome's later days? Does the owner rant like Caligula? Will he select his horse to be the next manager? One drives up the Major Deegan Expressway in The Bronx, and in the summer dusk one may see a few blazes set by arsonists burning down the ghetto for the insurance. There in the distance Yankee Stadium glows with its wonderful radioactive light: a gem in a slum. One comes early for the batting practice; Frank Sinatra sings New York, New York over the p.a. system. Up in the broadcast...