Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seattle in 1901 as a retail shoe store by a Swedish prospector, John Nordstrom, who had struck it rich in the Klondike. Now a publicly traded concern, the firm is still closely controlled by members of the founder's family and propelled by their hands-on style. Says Edward Weller, a senior analyst in the San Francisco office of the Montgomery Securities investment firm: "Nordstrom's movitates people, not just by paying them well but by congratulating them and encouraging them...
...were abducted in the spring of 1985 by Shi'ite radicals. Their captors' principal demand: the release of 17 presumed Shi'ites who are serving prison sentences for, among other things, terrorist attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. Three other Americans, Joseph Cicippio, Frank Reed and Edward Tracy, are said to be held by groups called the Revolutionary Justice Organization and Arab Revolutionary Cells-Omar Moukhtar Forces...
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
STAFF WRITERS: Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Jennifer Hull, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Sara C. Medina, Jamie Murphy, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Nancy Traver, Amy Wilentz...
...minimum wage is not a living wage," says Senator Edward Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat, "and it is not a decent society in which a full-time job means a lifetime in poverty." For the 5 million people earning the minimum wage or less (out of 58 million hourly workers), a full-time job means $6,968 a year at most. The poverty line for a single person is $5,469 a year, for two people $6,998, and for a family of four...