Word: churns
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...listmakers wed advanced computer technology to an ever expanding data base to churn out highly specialized rolls of potential customers. They aim to know not only where you are but also who and what you are. By cross-indexing lists obtained from credit agencies, political parties, mail-order companies and other organizations, a direct-mail specialist can merge and compare the data to identify the groups you belong to, the car you drive, the party you vote for, the amount you paid for your house. All this helps direct marketers identify the goods, services and causes that might...
...intends to keep its current management. Fujitsu also plans to issue ICL shares on the London Stock Exchange within the next five years. Still, since the mainframe industry has become an increasingly competitive, slow- growing business, Fujitsu probably looks to ICL for something other than its capacity to simply churn out machines. Katsumi Tsuzura, an analyst for Japan's LTCB Research Institute, suggests that ICL's strongest attraction is its "established brand name in Europe...
Rehnquist is one of scores of distinguished legal figures who, with the same mixture of audacity and humility, started out at the top. They were law clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court, members of the small cadre of top young law graduates who each term help churn out the work of the nation's highest tribunal. The clerks' job description is simple, if daunting: to assist the Justices in the crafting of the nation's final judgments. Their responsibility, however, is bounded only by the discretion of the individual Justice for whom they work. Their duties, which last a year...
They see an administration that heaps them with advising, teaching and committee responsibilities while at the same time demanding that they churn out works of global eminence...
...served up original movies as well, like Faye Dunaway's Cold Sassy Tree and this month's remake of Treasure Island, starring Charlton Heston as Long John Silver. By 1992 the channel plans to churn out four made-for-TV movies a month. TNT also carries N.B.A. basketball (Turner just renewed his package of 50 regular-season games for four more years at the hefty cost of $275 million), and will offer 50 hours of exclusive Winter Olympics coverage in 1992. And if TNT seems to be stealing some thunder (and some programming) from TBS SuperStation, Turner's older...