Word: telegrammed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people first. And I include in that not just people, but that which exists between people. Let me challenge you. With all your study, you can read my X rays like a telegram. But can you read my involuntary muscles? Can you see the fear and uncertainty in my face? Will you tell me when you don't know what to do? Can you face your own fear, your own uncertainty? When in doubt, can you call in help...
Business groups are also becoming increasingly more effective in indirect lobbying at the grassroots level. The Chamber of Commerce maintains a network of 1200 local Congressional Action Committees which can generate enormous letter-writing and telegram-sending campaigns. It was just such a business-inspired campaigns that helped defeat the Agency for Consumer Protection in the 95th Congress and led Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.) to declare that he had "never seen such extensive lobbying" in his political career...
Some legislators had already driven the car in Daytona Beach, Fla. Florida Congressman Bill Chapell (see photo) was so impressed he sent a telegram to Jimmy Carter: "I've seen it, I've driven it, and it works...
Film Producer Robert Radnitz, who lives in one of the threatened houses, first spotted the boulder. Partially dislodged by a landslide, it had come to rest 200 ft. above his house. After vainly asking local officials to get rid of it, he finally sent an angry telegram to Governor Jerry Brown. The state thereupon declared an emergency, shut down five miles of the highway, and hired a Long Beach construction company for $97,000 to haul the boulder away...
...story clearly has been repeated and embellished. Raiffa last week received a telegram from Zurich reading, in part: "Last week, a well known columnist [Mseva Maria Borer] in a mass-circulation newspaper in Zurich wrote an article with the title "Lying Can Be Taught..."In the article she referred to your course on competitive decision making. The course section dealing with the strategy of deception was quoted as an example of the decadence of American society in general and the business world in particular. Teaching the youth and the future manager how to lie most effectively seemed...