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Word: penciled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...next, enabling companies to know more about customers' needs and to zero in on the characteristics that distinguish the customers they want from those they do not. A credit-card company using a system designed by Teradata, a division of NCR, found that customers who fill out applications in pencil rather than pen are more likely to default. A major hotel chain discovered that guests who opted for X-rated flicks spent more money and were less likely to make demands on the hotel staff, according to privacy consultant Larry Ponemon. These low-maintenance customers were rewarded with special frequent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Reader | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...fact that Day 25 Natalie also has gills, are ignored. Instead, HRL is taking the abortion debate out of fact and rationality and into the distorted realm of manipulation. This is an attempt to give the qualities of a six year-old to a fetus no bigger than a pencil point in order to intimidate...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: 'Little Natalie': A Poster Fetus for Intimidation | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

This year posters supporting Chopra appeared before the start of the campaign, and “Rohit” was scrawled in red pencil on signs throughout the Yard. Chopra’s campaign denied responsibility and no culprit has been found...

Author: By Andrew C. Campbell and Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Election Chair Runs the Show | 12/10/2002 | See Source »

Last night, a number of campaign posters supporting other candidates bore bold, red pencil scrawls reading “Rohit...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Race Heats Up | 12/4/2002 | See Source »

...cronies for the job, and that when the men from the camp applied to work there they were turned away. He looks over the anxious pleading faces of the ragged famished men, and then he turns to his constant companion, Staff Sgt, Groce, who already has notepad and pencil ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebuilding Afghanistan, One Bridge At a Time | 11/30/2002 | See Source »

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