Word: delbert
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What particularly riled Apple officers was Jobs' recruitment of respected Apple employees. Says Executive Vice President Delbert Yocam: "These were all key people." They include Rich Page, a senior Apple engineer, and Dan'l Lewin, manager of education marketing. The other defectors were the manager of the software division, a controller and an engineer...
...Delbert Kahoun, 57, and his cheery wife Christine, 60, like to tell how their 600-acre dairy farm near the southeastern Minnesota town of Rushford (pop. 1,500) has survived through six generations, beginning in 1864. "All the timber on this farm, every acre here, was cleared by my great-grandfather and my grandfather," says Kahoun. "My grandmother had tree cutters to feed all winter." Now the white two-story farmhouse, where the Kahouns had lived for 37 years, is occupied by their son Philip, 26, his wife Debbie and their three children. The elder Kahouns have moved into...
...Delbert considered selling the farm twelve years ago, when a buyer from Iowa offered a good price. But he asked his son, "Do you want this farm? If you say yes, I'll tell these men to go." Philip did not want his father to sell, and five years ago the value of the farm reached nearly $900,000. But then came bad times. Father and son ran up a combined debt of about $250,000. The value of the farm dropped to roughly $400,000. Now the Kahouns are struggling just to hold on to the place...
...Congress began consideration of proposed amendments to the Constitution that would permit supposedly voluntary prayer in public schools, overturning Supreme Court decisions in 1962 and 1963 that are bitterly resented by many religious groups and their political allies. The high court rulings, cried Ohio Republican Delbert Latta during an all-night House speech-making session, "favor atheism over Christianity...
Proposed by Republican Delbert Latta of Ohio, with the backing of the White House, the plan was the tenth budget that the House had considered in the past three weeks. It was very likely the last real alternative to having no budget at all. This fear of total failure-and of continued castigation by Reagan as the cause of all economic woes-was the key to the congressional vote. "The members perceived that this could be it," said Mississippi Republican Trent Lott. "There was a feeling that we had to pass a budget today." Added Liberal Democrat James Shannon...