Word: avco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seattle, and plans to move into a $40-a-month apartment in his native state of Wyoming where he hopes to teach. Electronics firms have laid off 5% of their personnel in Massachusetts. William Kukers, 52, lost his $20,000-a-year job as a project manager with Avco Corp., now supports his wife and 16-year-old son on $68 a week in unemployment compensation and a dwindling savings account. Automobile manufacturers have slashed their payrolls by 18,500, and Detroit's advertising agencies have laid off more than 200 employees, many of whom are dipping into their...
...backer of Arthur, the slipped discotheque. Twice married, once divorced, once separated, he was the most eligible married male in Manhattan. His upper West Side triplex was decorated by Billy Baldwin. His Rolls waited obediently at the curb while he visited his fellow greats. His corporation was acquired by AVCO Embassy Pictures Corp. for $4,500,000. And yet, and yet, at that palmy time ?was it only the day before yesterday? ?there was a reason offered for Mike's acidulous tongue and his lofty penthouse picture of society. It was the standard one, heavily merchandised by paperback...