Word: shavers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prolonged acquaintance, it shows every sign of being the brightest, freshest television caper since Columbo. Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) is an ambitious, adventure-hungry private eye whose phone never rang until she invented a partner who was, naturally, male (she got his name from marrying an electric shaver to a football team) and who would nominally solve all her cases. Clients flocked. Then an incessantly self-admiring bunko artist figured out Laura's canny fraud and threatened to expose her unless she let him become Steele, with appropriate office space and elaborate perks...
Teleconference Calls. If Selby Shaver, communications director for Allstate Insurance Co. in Northbrook, III., urgently needs to convey some complicated information to a regional office in Menlo Park, Calif, he sometimes holds a teleconference. Shaver merely steps from his office into a room equipped with television cameras and shows his distant colleagues what he means during a televised phone call. Says he: "It's the next best thing to being there...
...Harvard by opening a women's leg shaving service in their Weld Hall suite. The Weld Penthouse Shaving Society was founded on the premise that some female students were "too lazy" to take care of the job themselves, and it was apparently well-received by amused Weld women. One shaver said that he and his associates had provide their non-pront service to at least 20 customers...
...Harvard by opening a women's leg shaving service in their Weld Hall suite. The Weld Penthouse Shaving Society was founded on the premise that some female students were "too lazy" to take care of the job themselves, and it was apparently well-received by amused Weld women. One shaver said that he and his associates had provided their non-profit service to at least 20 customers...
Even some foreign companies are suffering from the walkout. Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms Ltd. of Cambridge, Ont., is one of the world's largest poultry firms. Every 24 hours it ships as many as 50,000 day-old chicks to clients around the globe, some of them in the U.S. Newborn chicks can live for no more than three days without feeding, which is prohibitively expensive during transport. Thus air freight is essential for Shaver's business. Says a company official: "For the moment we are managing, but if U.S. flights halt, that could start backing up Canadian...