Word: label
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...register their forms and rate schedules in the public files of state insurance departments. Thus would-be kidnapers could easily determine which firms issue ransom insurance, gain illegal access to the company's files and find out to whom the policies are issued. So American insurers often euphemistically label ransom coverage as robbery, physical-damage or personal-injury insurance. Some ransom clauses are buried in riders on bankers' bonds, which insure companies against embezzlement or other theft by corporate officers. By whatever name it is called, however, the increasing popularity of ransom insurance underscores the growing...
...label approach was not a good long-term approach, but a new method has not been decided on. The original plan was for cards that last two years; they've lasted three years." Sterling I. Smith, Assistant Purchasing Agent and Insurance Manager for the University, said yesterday...
...timed release of carefully nurtured hatreds can be beneficial. Says he: "The weapon is satire. If we're successful, the haters will have to find a new word." That does not mean, of course, that the new word will not carry the same old venom - just a new label...
When Geffen took over Warner Communications' Elektra records division in July 1973, it was barely breaking even. Geffen merged Elektra with his small Asylum label, dropped 25 of the 35 Elektra recording artists, fired Elektra's art director and the entire publicity, promotion and production staffs. Then he spirited Dylan away from Columbia, the Band from Capitol and Joni Mitchell from Warner Bros, (a separate subsidiary of Warner Communications). In 1973, the first year of Geffen's tenure, Elektra-Asylum sales were $18 million; so far this year sales have already hit $7 million...
...left three years later to become a talent manager in Hollywood. Unable to impress film stars, he turned to rock titans, built up a solid list of clients (Joni Mitchell; Laura Nyro; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) and made his first million at age 25. Geffen launched the Asylum label with $400,000 in savings in 1971, and a year later sold out to Warner for $5 million. Though he dresses casually, shaves irregularly and speaks with an un-promoter-like politeness, Geffen drives himself uncompromisingly. "I have the demonstration records of new artists converted to eight-track tape...