Word: bon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last summer, Au Bon Pain hired a security guard at nights because drunks were harassing the bakery's patrons, said Louis C. Brazil, a company spokesman...
...billion. But last year the company earned $2.4 billion, and workers want some of the benefits of the good times. Says Charles Ryan, 59, a janitor at Detroit's Jefferson Avenue plant who joined the company in 1951: "The workers never got credit for saving Chrysler." Echoes William Bon, president of U.A.W. Local 122 in Cleveland: "We have made a great sacrifice to keep Chrysler afloat, and we don't want to get thrown out of the lifeboat." The company's semiskilled assemblers now make $13.23 an hour, 6 cents an hour less than their colleagues at GM and Ford...
...Bon Pain, The Wursthaus, and other local cafes and bakeries had much stronger sales days than usual managers said. A Store 24 cashier also reported unusually high sales...
While students from Harvard, MIT, and Boston University frolicked along the banks of the Charles River, others went on buying sprees for batteries, candles, and food at The Store 24 and even Au Bon Pain before it closed...
Soviet ships were barred from U.S. ports as a result of the 1979 Afghanistan invasion. But in Europe, saying bon voyage under a Red star is no longer a novelty. Western companies sending cargo overseas have also jumped aboard cut- rate Soviet ships. Their governments have been slow to respond to the Soviet merchants' tactics. The Japanese, the Australians and several West European nations complain that the Soviets have broken understandings on shipping policies and rates. None, however, has found a means to enforce the pacts. For now, maritime nations seem likely to find that ships flying the Hammer...