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Word: stickered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schlockmeisters seeking to capitalize on American outrage at the Iranian crisis make no apologies for their avarice "It started out as a capitalist move, I'll admit that," says Bumper Sticker King Rachelson, "but now it's a way for me to wave the flag." Hy Slater owner of Slater Corp. plans to continue peddling Iran through Christmas His reason: "Khomeini said he'd hold the hostages over the holidays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Schlock | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...mused. Many more television programs and movies are being submitted to the armed services for consultation and technical advice. Marines are going to be good guys again on film. Says one officer: "We have learned there are some things in this world you cannot solve with a bumper sticker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...FUNNY about this one from the start. It began innocently enough; somebody arranged an interview, and somebody else found the promo record. If I had to put my finger on it, it was the record that first gave the show away. Some ingenious record company executive had pasted a sticker to the cellophane wrapping, a sticker graced by Stanley Clarke's evaluation of Diana Hubbard's music. There is only one problem. In his glowing tribute, Clarke failed to note that he too played on this album...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Dentists' Office Jazz | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

...WEATHER the crooked linoleum corridors of the second floor of the Jefferson Physics Laboratory, you come upon an unassuming, airy, office, distinguishable from all others only by its lazily opened door. Above the nameplate--"Prof. S. Glashow"--somebody's placed a gun control sticker, and above that a cockeyed "congratulations"--modest. as if in celebration of a birthday...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: An Invitation To Stockholm | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...shortage of skilled labor and, most important, the financial and technical burdens of meeting the increasingly stringent pollution and safety requirements in the European companies' important export market, the U.S. The costs of retooling plants to manufacture cars that meet U.S. standards will add about 20% to the sticker price and cut deeply into profit margins. Lamborghini, which makes only eight to ten cars a month, has already written off the U.S. market rather than invest the money required to meet its specifications. Maserati, which sends half of its output to the U.S., is waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Exotic Steals at $40,000 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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