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Word: timex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guess which of these sequences were rearranges to make sense? Can you imagine how chaotic things get when they're seen out of sequence? If nothing had a logical sequence to it, how could they test I.Q.? The Timex and Bulova companies would be out of business...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Sequences | 6/3/1977 | See Source »

...popped out of his head. Who could blame him? Jaime looked smashing, and as Steve's blood pressure climbed, so did the show's ratings. Explains willowy Lindsay Wagner, who plays Jaime: "Viewers tuned in to see whether passion could flow between two people who were part Timex." So many did so, in fact, that Jaime was spun out of Steve's life for a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The $500,000 Timex | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...fantasies that most have never truly abandoned. The Six Million Dollar Man is a well-established example of this innocent merriment. While the children get off on their superman fantasies, Mom and Pop may mull the sexual problems and possibilities inherent in a creature who is half man, half Timex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: The New Season, Part II | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...unions. He also succeeded in ending a three-day strike of postal workers by warning them that if they did not return to their jobs he would send in the army to sort the mail. Military arm-twisting was also used to end a month-long walkout at the Timex plant outside Lisbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: I'm Spinola--Defy Me | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

Rolling Heads. Last week wildcat strikes spread from Portuguese firms to several American and other foreign companies that built factories in Portugal to employ cheap labor. Workers struck the Timex and Bayer corporations, demanding more than 50% raises. All four Firestone tire plants were shut down by discontented employees, while ITT executives bargained anxiously to head off a walkout at the semiconductor plant in Cascais. "The workers are looking for heads to roll," said a nervous Dutch director of ITT. "The situation could erupt at any moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Delivering on Promises | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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