Word: addison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd seemed more purposeful than defiant. Katherine Wedel, 17, left a New York hospital in her sick-bed smock to join the rally. "To me," she said, "it's important to be here because the money spent on bombs could be spent on finding a cure for Addison's disease," for which Wedel is being treated. Some placards were flip. One beery young man carried a sign that said DON'T BOMB US, WE'RE ALREADY BOMBED and on another youth's poster was the request REAGAN-GIVE ME A CHANCE TO REACH YOUR...
...Addison Satz Seattle...
...Wayne Addison, 39, of Kokomo, Ind., lost his job with Chrysler last August, and has seven children to support, but claims not to be worried. "We've been cutting corners for years," he says. Addison's wife returned to work testing transistors at Delco, a division of General Motors. He buys most of the family groceries directly from farms, spending only $55 a week on food. Addison also barters his services, repairing a neighbor's clothes dryer in exchange for a new shirt. Still, Addison is bothered that his two eldest daughters must pay most...
Eisenhower had his ileitis symptoms, and Kennedy went into power with a form of Addison's disease. Johnson had suffered his first heart attack, and Nixon was shadowed by phlebitis. Ford's otherwise robust physique was flawed by old football injuries. Carter came to the White House with his record showing a period of depression after a race for Governor of Georgia...
...however, a much less recognized proposition is being advanced: the real secret of Japan's success is better management, especially in personnel policy. That is the thesis of an inscrutably titled book, Theory Z, by U.C.L.A. Management Professor William Ouchi that will be published in April by Addison-Wesley...