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Word: zips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defrauded and writers of wrongs find themselves very much in demand. Last year Action Line columns answered more than 2 million complaints. Action Lines unmask unscrupulous repairpersons, humble haughty bureaucrats, chasten heartless computers, stay the hands of overeager credit companies, track lost merchandise to the ends of the zip-coded universe and locate spare parts for Polish-built refrigerators. They are the new Miss Lonelyhearts, multiplied many times over. As White House Consumer Adviser Esther Peterson told them, "You are a growth industry. I salute you for raising the awareness of the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Miss Lonelyhearts Many Times Over | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Yastrzemski, the aging warrior who perhaps wanted a World Series ring more than any player in the game, cracked a Guidry fastball 20 rows deep in the rightfield grandstand, leading off the second inning; and the home squad had a one-zip lead...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Yanks Nip Sox for Title, 5-4 | 10/3/1978 | See Source »

UMass broke loose and put together two long drives in the second stanza, but the combination of bad field position (Al MacMurray averaged 35.5 yards per punt for the Crimson) and a stingy Harvard defense inside the 30-yd. line kept the score three-zip at the half...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Gridders Zap Minutemen, 10-0 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Wilcox says the greatest problem in implementing the Core will be to find enough teaching fellows to staff all the new courses. Due to decreasing enrollment in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Wilcox explains, the pool of prospective teaching fellows "is just about down to zip...

Author: By Amy B. Mclntosh, | Title: Reaching the Core of the Matter | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...Core will be to finding enough teaching fellows to staff the newlycreated Core courses. "The resources simply aren't there," he says--a fact that stems from decreasing enrollment in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The pool of perspective teaching fellows there "just about down to zip." he adds...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Farewell to Gen Ed | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

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