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Word: thanked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incredible? Sexton has l,500 subscribers who pay $360 a year for his biweekly newsletter of predictions, and many have written to thank him for saving them from Black Monday. Says Marc Klee, who helps manage the $200 million American Fund Advisors: "His techniques are unconventional, to say the least, but I've been working with him three years or so, and his track record is well above average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...regales friends with darkly comic tales of her attempts to rile him -- making mementos of his shows, for example, but pointedly omitting the flops. Mary Rodgers, daughter of Richard Rodgers and one of Sondheim's oldest friends, describes Sondheim's propensity for writing "eloquent, deliberately mean, really hooty little thank-you notes," and quotes a sample: "Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head? Love, Steve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen Sondheim: Master of the Musical | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...them entirely. Attempts to ignore the other call are fruitless, as the phone company has taken the precaution of brain-washing the American people in childhood to allow an inordinate number of rings before hanging-up in order to "be polite." As if I am going to thank the fool who politely infests my home with a grating bell for 10 uninterrupted minutes--"Thank you so much for waiting...I really couldn't decide whether or not to answer, and you gave me the time to make up my mind. I'll never forget you." You simply cannot ignore...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Waiting is the Hardest Part | 12/3/1987 | See Source »

Unwrapped, they prove too awful to eat. Just tip them into the bin marked THANK YOU and leave, moving past the plastic chairs rooted to plastic tables, the idea apparently being to facilitate hosing the place out, like a stable, during some lonesome midnight hiatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Separate Reality on I-95 | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...Einhorn, portfolio strategist at Goldman Sachs, was equally unimpressed. "They went down to the wire, then delivered what the market expected anyway," said Einhorn. "Washington took four weeks to make cuts, and we aren't even sure if the cuts are good ones. About all you can say is 'Thank God they could negotiate something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey And Trimmings | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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