Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard called Edward W. Markey up to the majors last week...
...deal was close to being struck two weeks ago, when Senator Edward Kennedy entered the picture. Having remained neutral throughout the primaries, Kennedy telephoned Mondale with an offer to fly to Minnesota and announce his backing. Mondale invited Kennedy to spend Sunday night at his home in North Oaks. Just before boarding a jetliner at Boston's Logan International Airport, Kennedy called Hart from a VIP lounge to review the Coloradan's bargaining position, making notes on a yellow legal pad. After arriving in North Oaks, Kennedy urged his host to compromise on a couple of unresolved points...
...labor costs are often much lower than in the U.S. Many electronics firms, including Atari and Apple Computer, have set up circuit-board assembly lines in Asia. General Motors' Delco electronics division has built plants in Singapore and Mexico. Such moves stir bitter resentment among American workers. Says Edward Sesma, 33, who is being laid off this week from his job as a forklift driver at a San Diego tuna cannery: "You only have to look a few miles across the border to Mexico to notice all the companies setting up shop there to take advantage of cheap costs...
Farrakhan's outrageous statements have been roundly denounced by liberal leaders. "We cannot pretend we do not see or hear when Louis Farrakhan predicts race war by 1986," said Senator Edward Kennedy in an eloquent speech a fortnight ago on the dangerous rifts that have come between Jews and blacks. "Such conduct can never be condoned and it must be unequivocally condemned." Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin called on Jackson to repudiate Farrakhan. George McGovern last week asked how Jackson could "swallow a self-evident anti-Semitic bigot and life-threatening bully such as Louis Farrakhan...
...last week in Los Angeles, Hill likened a foot-high pile of allegations, suits and countersuits to the movie Rashomon, in which "every event is reported entirely differently by every person who saw it." The cast of the courtroom drama includes Coppola, Producer Robert Evans and Investors Fred and Edward Doumanl and Victor Sayyah, who have been waging a bitter back-lot struggle for control of the way-over-budget ($58 million in all, some say) Harlem jazz-era epic with Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Gregory Nines. Says Evans of Coppola, in one reported sample of the prevailing civility...