Word: close
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Still, direct mailers are growing more sensitive to consumer concerns about increasingly interwoven data bases. A few direct mailers refuse to rent their lists to other mailers. Among the holdouts: the Red Cross, Reader's Digest and AT&T, which posts close to 300 million pieces of promotional mail annually...
...their customers under tight wraps. Lands' End offers no information about individuals when it passes on their names. "We are fanatical about keeping information about customers in the office," says Michael Atkin, the company's marketing vice president. The Time Inc. Magazine Co., which publishes TIME and sends out close to 35 million pieces of promotional mail each year, rents its customer lists. But they are made available only to buyers who agree to strict conditions, such as refusing to use telephone appeals for any of the acquired names. The company, like many others, will not rent a list until...
...outside on 125th Street in Manhattan as early as 5 a.m. last Tuesday, following the Veteran's Day holiday. By 9 a.m. the crowd was chanting, "Save the bank! Save the bank!" But Freedom National Bank was not to be saved. Instead, it became the 155th bank to be closed by the government so far this year. Said a saddened depositor, Joan Carpenter: "It's a shame. This is the only black bank in Harlem, and it shouldn't be allowed to close. It's not just another bank...
...editors weighed these concerns, and then acted in a TIME-honored way. They ignored them. The phenomenon of the amazing growth of junk mail is a large, interesting and significant story. Yes, as is so often the case in this era of large, diverse communications companies, the discussion strikes close to home, but editors must go about their business. That's what our co-founder, Henry Luce, had in mind when he decreed decades ago that we should maintain a separation of "church" (the editorial side of the magazine) and "state" (the business side). So our editors, with what...
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Henry Rosovsky will spend the day with his daughter, who is cooking the turkey. He said he is "thankful that his administrative career at Harvard is rapidly drawing to a close...