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PAINTING A CAR
When you're choosing paint for a car, navy blue, burgundy, or black cherry connote "luxury." Bright yellow and red are "sporty." Black and white are classics, while grays and silvers seem "European." Greens are hard to sell.
Rich and Jean Taylor Constantine, quoting Debbie Weber, manager of Color Development Design at the Ford Motor Co.
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Current Rating: 5.3 out of 10 based on 19 reviews
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KEEPING YOUR CUSTOMERS
The average customer who has had a problem with a company tells nine or ten people about it.
Technical Assistance Research Programs, in Microservice Management
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Current Rating: 6.3 out of 10 based on 20 reviews
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BUYING LIFE INSURANCE
Parents with young children should have five or six times their salaries in life insurance. People without children should have enough to pay off their debts.
Sharon Yntema, writer, Ithaca, New York
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Current Rating: 6.1 out of 10 based on 19 reviews
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SPOTTING A SCHIZOPHRENIC
Schizophrenics almost never yawn.
Scott Parker, data specialist, Beaumont, Texas
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Current Rating: 3.6 out of 10 based on 20 reviews
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CHECKING OUT A NURSING HOME
If you smell urine when you enter a nursing home, it is not a place to put someone you care about.
Edward J. Garrison, nursing home administrator, Watsonville, California
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Current Rating: 7.0 out of 10 based on 24 reviews
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GROWING CHRYSANTHEMUMS
If you cultivate mums, don't leave home for more than three days.
Walter Pitkin, literary agent, Weston, Connecticut
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Current Rating: 4.6 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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WATCHING YOUR CHICKENS
If your chickens run for cover when it starts to rain, the shower will be brief. If they stay outside, it is going to rain all day.
Lewis and Paulette Ramsey, Howardsville, Virginia
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Current Rating: 4.6 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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THE MOUNTAINEER'S WIND RULE
A plume of snow blowing from a peak higher than 7,000 meters means a wind of at least 100 miles per hour on the summit.
David Kumaki, physician, Shelburne, New Hampshire
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Current Rating: 4.7 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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COUNTING LICENSE PLATES
On a highway, 1 in 22 cars will have a fausses montres Rolex femme plate from a foreign province or state.
Carolyn Lloyd, 15-year-old student, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Current Rating: 4.1 out of 10 based on 19 reviews
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WAITING FOR A CHANCE TO SAY SOMETHING
People will lapse into silence after every 20 minutes of conversation.
Margie Halpin, unemployed sprinkler fitter's apprentice, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Current Rating: 4.5 out of 10 based on 20 reviews
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RAISING WILD ANIMALS
Keep baby animals in something that is 90 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit until their eyes open, then lower the temperature 5 degrees a week to room temperature.
Carl Grummich, veterinarian
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Current Rating: 6.0 out of 10 based on 21 reviews
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