Word: refunding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discreet, with faces like silver teapots, the better art dealers and auctioneers around London's Bond Street have long maintained their immunity from the scandals of the art world. Circumspection is the motto, coupled with a standing policy-among members of the British Antique Dealers Association-to refund the price of any fake. Therefore, when the biggest art forgery scandal in years came to a head in London last fortnight, the embarrassment was acute. At a press conference, a rubicund, white-bearded cockney painter and restorer named Tom Keating, 59, revealed that over the past 25 years...
...often catty and petty, Sanford's book nevertheless does seem to have a point about one of Nader's fund-raising tactics: the Public Interest Research Groups raise money on many college campuses through an automatic fee that all students must pay, applying for a refund if they do not wish to be assessed. Yet Nader has sharply assailed the practice of book clubs that send volumes monthly to members unless they ask the clubs in writing...
Perhaps I am the only student who has received a refund from the Harvard Delivery News Service. I received the refund after complaining to The New York Times in New York (800-325-6400; toll free). The toll-free number is also an answering service, but The New York Times returns phone calls and manages to contact the Harvard Delivery people. I received $3.75. David Cholst...
...month-old delivery service, which has yet to perform an audit of its books, Gaither said, also does not know whether it will be financially able to refund money to all angry subscribers--some of whom this week said they missed up to four Sunday and ten daily newspapers last term...
...Fully disclose warranty terms in "simple and readily understood language." Among the facts that must be listed: precisely when, how and by whom a product will be repaired or replaced, and who will make a refund. Currently warranties are often clotted with legalese and offer implied instead of explicit promises...