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Word: sweeter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Banning the buss has made parting a sweeter sorrow. "Kissing is up 100%," says Assistant Village Manager Marjorie Emery. Reports Commuter Lawrence Rosskin: "I take a later train so my wife and I can linger under the sign a while." So popular are the signs that they must be taken down on Fridays and erected again on Mondays to keep them from being ripped off. The town has even taken out a copyright and plans to mass-produce the emblems on poster board at $15 a pair. Deerfield has just one more problem to solve. The congestion around the station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Ban the Buss! | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...between Macmillan and Mattel, Inc., the California-based toymaker that grew big on sales of Barbie dolls but which is still less than one-third ABC's size. ABC's offer of $335 million for a controlling 55% of Macmillan's shares was just $6 million sweeter than Mattel's bid, but the betting was that it would be accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mork vs. Barbie | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...Workers, whose contract expires Sept. 14, sit down with representatives of General Motors to fashion an industrywide settlement. No one is ruling out a strike. U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser, who initially supported the guidelines, has been talking tougher as negotiations near. Among other things, the union will seek a sweeter COLA and a shorter work week to ensure job security for more workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Guidelines: Down but Not Out | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Count Dracula has always been something of a romantic. Given his undead state and his all too literal bloodthirstiness, his problem has ever been to find a socially (not to say legally) acceptable way of expressing his sweeter side. It is the funny premise of this movie that it required the intervention of the U.S. (circa 1970-79) to make the count begin to look good, despite his obvious kinks, to a lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Count of New York | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

Pianos, dulcimers, bass, and, of course, guitars take turns backing up the vocalists, but the truly outstanding sounds are those of the singers themselves. Some pretty amazing guitarists play Passim--Guy Van Duser really shines. It's music sweeter than wine, and that's not such a bad thing these days with the drinking age where...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: A Scoop Behind the Coop | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

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