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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lebow of Southfield, Mich., a former traveling salesman who now works full time in the movement, testified that his visiting rights have been & withheld so often that he has been in and out of court for six years. "The vast majority of fathers are denied visitation," he said. "The noncustodial parent becomes isolated, and things are stacked against him." Peter Cyr, outgoing president of N.C.M. and a dentist from Portland, Me., spent seven years and $25,000 getting joint custody of his two daughters. "Even if you win a custody trial," he lamented, "you are wiped out financially, and your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Men Have Rights Too | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Last August Cooperson translated rights and procedures for a Lebanese man in Federal Court, after he was caught at the airport smuggling drugs into this country. "He told me he was a used-car salesman visiting friends in Worcester. Then we started pulling bags of heroin out of his jacket...

Author: By Rebecca W. Carman, | Title: Speaking in Tongues | 11/20/1986 | See Source »

...telephone number. They are also partial to pagers that vibrate silently rather than giving off an audible signal. Dealers sometimes use fronts to sign with a paging service to thwart easy tracing. But not always: "We do get some strange or spooky clients in here," says one Miami beeper salesman. "I've never seen so many people who didn't have driver's licenses, even though I just saw them drive up in a Mercedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Smart: Drug dealers turn on to beepers | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

When buying stereo equipment, most students tend to invest in one item at a time, says Peter W. Saltsman, a salesman at Tweeter, Etc. 102 Mt. Auburn St. However, Radio Shack, at 28 JFK St., does a healthy business in rack systems which include an amplifier, turntable, cassette deck, and speakers all stacked together in a cabinet for about...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: The Music Lover's Dilemma: CD or Not CD | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

...Radio Shack, compact disc players, which retail for $200 to $249, are among the fastest selling items. "They're the best game in town," says salesman Todd M. Foley...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: The Music Lover's Dilemma: CD or Not CD | 9/26/1986 | See Source »

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