Word: post
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...stunning upset, Dixon managed to bury four opponents who had long experience in government. Enjoying the support of blacks and whites alike, she won 35% of 122,000 votes, a record turnout for an off-year election. Barry, a dedicated opponent of Dixon's, offered the sharpest post- election analysis of her victory: "Sharon Pratt Dixon represented drastic change...
While Dixon's last-minute surge of support was helped by a series of editorial endorsements from the Washington Post, another candidate got by nicely without its approval. Eleanor Holmes Norton, former chief of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, became the Democratic nominee for the District's nonvoting seat in Congress. The Post withheld its support after the news broke just before election day that Norton and her husband had not filed city tax returns from...
Direct-mail advertisers are worried about the sudden desire among consumers to cut down on junk mail. More than 1 million people, an elevenfold increase over last summer, have signed up for the post office's preference service, which eliminates many third-class and sales mailings. The Direct Marketing Association blames the backlash on the 1989 book 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth. The best seller's No. 1 recommendation: get rid of unnecessary mail. "If only 100,000 people stopped their junk mail," the book claims, "we could save about 150,000 trees every year...
REAL ESTATE MOGUL ON THE ROPES. UNIONS BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL. The conflict had the makings of a tabloid-headline writer's dream. But the journalistic juices were not flowing as usual at the New York Post last week, as the gossipy newspaper itself became one of the biggest stories in town. The Post, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, faced the imminent prospect of closing unless unions coughed up some $19 million in wage and benefit concessions to satisfy the deadline demands of its owner, real estate developer Peter Kalikow. After marathon bargaining, a tentative settlement kept the tabloid alive...
...since the post was created approximately one year ago, critics have charged that the associate dean's one-year term makes it virtually impossible for him or her to accomplish anything...