Word: postcard
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...example, an IBM staff member who had moved to Africa sent a postcard to a group of former colleagues who were stationed at EDS. The card pictured native women with exposed breasts. "It was like something you'd see in National Geographic," recalls Wilson. Nonetheless, Perot, who saw the postcard, fired off a letter to IBM "about how EDS employees were embarrassed by this pornography, and that we should control our employees better," says Wilson...
...newscast, where the next generation prompts hope and not despair. Neither neighbors nor teachers nor her perhaps more candid peers see the girl's fall from grace as typical. To her fellow townspeople, Amy Fisher's life offers no moral alert, no cautionary lessons. She is just a postcard from beyond the edge...
...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...Gamble hardware store, tore out 100-year-old wood shelves, spruced it up, offered long shopping hours and personal service. For three years the McConkey brothers prospered. Sometimes when the square was filled and bustling, friends trading with friends, families greeting families, James thought "it looked like an old postcard." This was a life he cherished. Nobody got really rich. Their wealth was in the closeness and vitality of the community. Then came Wal-Mart...
...feel like chumps every April 15. His plan has the advantage of taking Congress out of the tax-break / business, and demolishing the industry of accountants and lawyers who guide the wealthy through 4,000 pages of loopholes, by reducing the average tax return to the size of a postcard...