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Word: tuners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairness, the distilled silliness of the plot does not aid her. Debbie is Irene O'Dare, an Irish-American piano tuner who lives in a Manhattan Ninth Avenue flat with her widowed mother (Patsy Kelly). On a tuning job at a Long Island mansion, she meets Donald Marshall (Monte Markham), heir to a family fortune. He is so impressed with her commercial savvy that he makes her a partner in a couturier venture sponsoring a man named Madame Lucy (George S. Irving). Love calls; the pair answers. Good night, Donald. Good night, Irene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hot Line of Goods | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

Delegates from several unions bitterly told stories of "runaway" plants that backed up Meany's contentions. These included RCA's TV plant that moved from Memphis to Taiwan, as well as Bendix of York, Pa., and Kollsmann Industries' Wisconsin TV-tuner operation, both of which relocated in Mexico. AFL-CIO economists cite Bureau of Labor Statistics figures showing that the number of U.S. workers that theoretically would be required to produce all goods imported into the U.S. has increased by at least 700,000 (to 2.5 million) since 1966. The implication is that if imports were held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Labor's Turnabout on Trade | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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