Word: button
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...election year 1976, the campaign button is becoming an endangered species, set back by high costs (up to a nickel a button) and competition from other forms of political advertising. "Television has made the biggest cut into our business," laments Frank Boston, a button manufacturer in Illinois. Now orders are 5,000 to 10,000 a whack, compared with as high as 100,000 in better button days. Another manufacturer, William Crookston of Los Angeles, is pinning his own hopes on producing buttons for fast food chains to distribute to youthful customers. Future generations may well ponder what turned...
Unbutton your button-downs, you Ph.D.s who want jobs, and try some manual labor. You may love...
...suggested that Brigadier General Omar Torrijos might simply have been trying to walk on water. At least Panama's strongman added some excitement to ceremonies marking the partial completion of a dam and hydroelectric plant on the Bayano River last week. Shortly after pushing a button to drop the last of four gates damming the current, Torrijos, 46, suddenly plunged into the river-fully clothed in his national guard uniform, with military boots and a .45 automatic. He was immediately followed by a few loyal military aides, then by Panama's civilian Vice President, Gerardo Gonz...
...pointed to the girl sitting next to him. She did not smile or seem insulted, but acknowledged that she went to Commonwealth and said that her name was Deborah Alkema. Like Hershey-Webb, she had long blond hair and wore jeans but unlike him she sported no Udall button...
...University set up the Harvard International Office (HIO) to deal with these and similar problems. Its director, Jennifer Stephens, a British citizen with "I'm a Tory" button on her desk, believes the HIO serves as an effective liaison between foreign students and the various University offices they must deal with...