Word: mailboxes
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Then there were the notes slipped under my door. Sometimes I found notes in my mailbox. Sometimes I was given toys with company logos. And everywhere I went on campus, posters promising a wonderful I-banking/consulting life lined the stairwells, covered the entrances to the dining halls and glared at me from every lamppost and tape-able surface imaginable. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but these messages left little room in my mind for misinterpretation: Forget art. I should bank or consult. But I'm stubborn, and so, naively, I ignored the signs thinking that new ones would inevitably...
...first learns of cases from local social service organizations with which they have cultivated a relationship, particularly Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD). ABCD social workers provide their clients with applications, who send them to HOP's mailbox in Phillips Brooks House...
Barbara Tyler was so fed up with all the political ads blaring on her local TV that she switched to a satellite provider--but that didn't stop the flyers that are pouring through her Laingsburg, Mich., mailbox or the pollsters who keep calling to plumb her latest thoughts. George W. Bush and Al Gore have been spending so much time in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area of Florida that they are beginning to seem like neighbors. "In the past, if they came once, it was a momentous occasion," says Hillsborough County commissioner Jan Platt. "Now it's, 'Oh, here...
Judging from the cascade of credit-card offers in your mailbox, you would think there is plenty of competition in the industry. Banks have been leaping over one another to grab more of what industry types call "wallet share"--a bigger chunk of the 80% of U.S. households that already carry plastic. So banks pick fights with other banks. Special, predatory offers abound--2.87 billion mailings in 1999 alone. "Competition doesn't get any better than this," says David Robertson, president of the Nilson Report, a credit-card-industry newsletter...
...Girl? You have to pass one of our bi-weekly "Dinner Game" tests. Check your mailbox to see if you receive a golden invitation...