Word: informality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a 74-store firm with annual revenues of $283 million. So expert was he at keeping costs (and, some say, service) to a minimum that after he sold the chain to its operating managers in 1984 for $160 million, the new owners took out newspaper ads to inform customers that the stores were no longer owned by the Hafts...
...ears, with reverberations that jangle provocatively in a moviegoer's memory. But the violent mood swings Demme programmed into films like Melvin and Howard and Something Wild often kept viewers at a bemused remove. And once or twice Pfeiffer has been stuck in films she could ornament but not inform. This time, though, these two and a gang of co-stars have created a coherent farce symphony...
Malone is convinced that Kennedy's visibility and high name recognition is beneficial to the Republican's own campaign. "The fact that Ted Kennedy's image is so set in people's minds allows me to talk more about Joe Malone than having to educate and inform them about Ted Kennedy," Malone says. "I don't have to spend a half-a-million dollars to let the voters of Massachusetts know that Ted Kennedy is an ultraliberal--they know it already...
Rossiaud adds that by catering only to bachelors or widowers, prostitutes could inform the authorities of adulterers, who were not supposed to enter the bordellos. When travelling salesmen came through the towns, they were able to use the prostitutes instead of deflowering nice young maidens. But most of all, the brothels made money for the towns, and people protested vehemently to keep them as a source of revenue...
...boats filled with refugees arrived in Hong Kong harbor last week, police went aboard to inform the passengers of the new policy. The refugees will be held in detention camps, probably for years, until the Vietnamese government agrees to take them back...