Word: touche
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...gives its 80 million residential customers credits toward buying 50 different products and services. By making $15 to $300 a month in long-distance calls, customers become eligible for reductions on Polaroid cameras, airline tickets and nights in a Howard Johnson's motel. If callers reach out and touch someone often enough or long enough, they can talk themselves into $500 off a Toyota truck. The A T & T plan is aimed at helping the company hang on to its dominance of the $45 billion U.S. longdistance market...
This trend, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III says, could lead to a "leadership strata," in which the leaders become out of touch with the rest of the body, inactive members neglect meetings, and the whole body loses touch with constituents in the Houses. "A lot of people on the council get into the thinking they are doing the things they are doing for the council, [not for the students]," Melendez acknowledges...
...Yard on those warm, sunny mornings of early summer. What will surprise are the students, how young they will be. Time has passed, and there will come in a rush the sense of time lost, the memories of the last adventure of youth, the all-nighters. Mazola parties, touch football along the Charles. Certainly, University Hall still stands in the center of Harvard Yard, and upon seeing the solid construction of Ivy-draped stone masonry we held for 16 hours. I know I will shudder and then remember the Harvard Strike of 1969. And then it will be time...
Almost no one of course, spends his life in political society. No once except, perhaps, the President of the United States, the Justices of the Supreme Court and one generation attending college at the end of the 1960s. Many of us had no cares about? Indeed no touch with, civil society, and could live our entire day as political citizens. We had enough education to ask what would be best of the world and enough time to dedicate ourselves entirely to the quest for the answer...
Headquarters for Harvard's intricate network is the Harvard Alumni Association, based at Wadsworth House. The operation there encourages each class committee to keep in touch with alumni through at least one yearly newsletter. The committees also try to sponsor at least one class-wide party a year following a big athletic event and a non-athletic event...