Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Still, business hasn't been that good," Jeff says. "I've only done about 200 freeze-dryings in two years. If business doesn't pick up, I might have to sell my machine to a funeral parlor. I've been negotiating with one that's thinking of using my machines in the human sector. It has this idea for 'perpetual viewing chapels...
...continuing to hand out condoms, Mechai has helped couples move on to more sophisticated forms of contraception. He put birth-control "supermarkets" in bus terminals, offering Pills, IUDs and spermicidal foam as well as condoms. Mechai also opened vasectomy clinics across the country, including one in Bangkok's massage-parlor district. Each year on the King's birthday, the P.D.A. offers free vasectomies (normal price...
...proposed student center would, at the minimum, house the offices of student groups and a dining hall for freshman to replace the Union. Others have suggested that the University go further and provide a cafeteria, some pinball machines, a pub with a band, a pizza parlor and, well, you get the idea...
John Sasso excels at a very simple thing: he listens. He fixes people with a steady gaze and, unlike most political operatives, does not cut them short. It is a disarming trait and not a parlor trick. Sasso actually takes what he hears and factors it into his plans. For he is, above all, a strategist, and any bit of stray information will be used to formulate his design...
Callers send in their suggestions for new Giraffes to the project's tiny office off Langley's main street, next door to a beauty parlor and across from the volunteer fire department. Many nominations come from 2,000 widely scattered members, most of whom pay $25 a year to support the project's work...