Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bright-colored spray paint on San Francisco's Civic Center plaza. The youngsters were not vandals, however; they were job seekers. It was the city's third annual Paint-In, and the resulting graffiti, scrawled on large white placards destined for the municipal bus fleet, beseeched Bay Area businesses to participate in Mayor Dianne Feinstein's summer jobs program, aimed at the city's approximately 15,000 out-of-school and out-of-work young people. And for one young painter, the day produced more than urban art. Tai-Li Wang, 17, author of a design...
Although confined to a wheelchair, with failing eyesight and hearing, J. Fred Boyd has no notion of quitting as chairman of Vermilion Bay Land, a Louisiana oil-and-gas company he helped start 39 years ago. He gets monthly reports on company affairs, and attended all three of the company's board meetings last year. Last week in Detroit, he attended his 50th consecutive annual meeting, where he was elected to his 13th term as chairman. The only thing unusual about all this is that he is 99 years...
...typewriters. He later opened an office-supply business in Muskegon, Mich., and was that city's first Ford dealer. In 1928 he invested in the Mount Forest Fur Farms of America, which raised muskrats. The company went bankrupt in 1931. He helped reorganize the failed firm as Vermilion Bay, and the company struck it rich when oil and gas were later discovered on the Louisiana muskrat farm. Vermilion now collects royalties on 60,000 acres of land in Louisiana. Last year the company had profits of $1.6 million on sales of $6.2 million. It has only four employees...
...most noticeable project dominates the heart of the district, along the southwestern and western walls of the Yard. To the tune of $72 million, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is extending the Red Line of the subway system past Harvard (previously the end of the line) to Alewife. Along the way, the MBTA is re-land-scaping the Central area of the Square, widening sidewalks, setting up modern art displays, and planting trees where no green life existed before. But until the expected completion date of late 1984, denizens must continue to battle heavily congested traffic, limited pedestrian space...
...bill. The Administration has also delayed pressing for a fourth year of import restrictions. In the wake of Uno's unexpected declaration, however, the Administration may have to find a way to reopen the door to negotiations on autos quickly so that it can keep the protectionists at bay. One wedge may the issue of agricultural quotas. The U.S. trade representative's office announced last week that it was complaining to GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) in Geneva about Tokyo's excessive import restrictions on U.S. agriculture. That may have moved Uno into a kind...