Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rosenthal understood, and Greenfield resigned on the spot...
Martin had never been less positive of anything, and he knew it, and so did Susan. But she was on the spot, so she said that would be fine, and they parted without even a peck...
...individual is tyrannized, then we make our stand." The methods he proposes for dealing with the Enemy are fiendishly sophisticated. No simple stapling, folding or mutilation of a computer card for him. "That will nullify the effect of the card," he says. "But it will make it easy to spot and will not have much effect on disrupting the system...
Four burly, unsmiling men in a black Mercedes-Benz limousine drive unannounced to the doors of a floundering textile company. Brusquely, they insist on seeing the owner-and they offer him a proposition for a takeover on the spot. France's Willot brothers-Bernard, 45, Jean-Pierre, 40, Antoine, 38, Regis, 35-have made that scenario increasingly familiar in European industrial circles. They make it their business to find out about textile firms in financial trouble and move in to grab control at bargain prices. In ten years of incessant acquisitions, they have stitched together the biggest textile combine...
...Reservation Systems, Inc., of New York, and Computicket Corp., a subsidiary of Computer Sciences Corp. of Los Angeles-are currently fighting for a potentially lucrative ticket market with much the same type of operation. Participating entertainment enterprises like theaters and sports arenas are linked by sales outlets in such spots as railroad stations, travel agencies, department stores and even supermarkets. At most of those locations, buyers tell a sales clerk what event they want to see and when. By pushing buttons on a console, the clerk queries a regional computer's "memory bank" and gets an instant reading...