Word: edward
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...profligacy toward Latin America. To its credit, the Reagan Administration came forward last year with the Caribbean Basin Initiative, a joint effort by the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Venezuela to promote trade, investment and aid to the region. It was conceived largely in response to Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga's call for a "mini-Marshall Plan...
...pique at inflexible practices in Japan's Electrotechnical Laboratory, he walked off the job for two weeks. Such rash assertions of personality are rare in Japan, and Fuchi's individualism has captured the admiration of many of his peers. Stanford Computer Science Professor Edward Feigenbaum calls Fuchi "a type almost unheard of in the East, one of those who, by force of will, can make something happen out of nothing...
...Peking's plans are more cloudy than black and white. The Chinese insist, for instance, that the current talks concern only Peking and London. When Hong Kong's Governor, Sir Edward Youde, announced that he would attend the discussions as a representative of the colony's citizens, he was quickly upbraided. "Mr. Youde," said a Chinese statement, "can only represent the British government in the talks...
...page report, the twelve-member study group concluded that there is no scientific evidence linking VDTs with eye disease or cataracts. Moreover, the report placed the blame for many ailments associated with VDTs on such environmental factors as poor lighting and stressful office conditions. Summed up Panel Chairman Edward Rinalducci, a professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology: "Our general conclusion is that eye discomfort, blurred vision and other visual disturbances, muscular aches and stress reported among VDT workers are probably not due to anything inherent in VDT technology...
Perhaps the most important cause of the recent drop was the doubling, to 16? per pack, of the federal cigarette tax on Jan. 1. In addition, many states-14 since 1982-are pushing up their levies on smokes. Says Reynolds Tobacco Chairman Edward A. Horrigan Jr.: "The excise tax, coupled with state tax increases, caused a dramatic drop in sales during the first quarter of the year." Wisconsin has the dubious honor of having the highest state cigarette tax: 25? a pack, making total taxes on a pack 41?. Those increases helped push up the price of a standard pack...