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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Bloch, 56, president, H & R Block of Kansas City. He invests in tax-free municipal bonds, as befits a tax expert in the lofty 70% bracket. Bloch points out that munis are safe, and enormously liquid, and they can be bought in denominations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Where the Experts Invest | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

Nothing is very precise in this business, but I think we've directed the center of our shows attitudinally at a younger marketplace. Younger is a very broad definition, by the way. We try to direct the main thrust to adults who are under a certain age bracket. But we also want to interrelate characters within those shows that appeal to segments on both ends. If you want to have a program, for example, whose heartbeat is to teenagers and adults under 50, you try to have elements within those shows that appeal to under-teenagers and people over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Talking Heads: A Triptych of Network Chiefs on Thrust, Appeal, Consensus, Risks, Holes, Fun, Meaning and . . . | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...questionable at best and are likely too partisan to represent accurately the true incidence of teenage drunk drivers. State Sen. John Owen presented figures in a hearing last Tuesday that showed that drunk driving had increased more in the 21-25 age group than in the 18-21 bracket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alcohol | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...action on the other side of the bracket, Penn defeated Dartmouth by ten and Princeton eviserated Barnard...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Cagers Rout Brown in Tourney Opener | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

...have called the shots straight down the line. I am a farmer in the 300-to-400-acre bracket, and it is not enough anymore to work by the sweat of one's brow. The hard work now is pushing a pencil and a pocket calculator. Those who talk about our tractors with air conditioning and radios should know that we who still must drive a tractor must also plan and keep up with the changing markets on our radios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1978 | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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