Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's conciliatory theme was echoed by the Administration's chief strategic nuclear arms negotiator, Ambassador Edward Rowny, when he returned to the Geneva START talks after a nine-week absence. Said Rowny: "If the Soviet delegation is prepared to meet us halfway, there will indeed be progress." Later in the day, Rowny met for three hours with the U.S.S.R.'s deputy chief arms negotiator, Aleksei A. Oboukhov, who was subbing for Chief Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov, absent and "slightly...
...with one computer, a good idea and some knowledge of computer programming. But as the market has expanded beyond the electronics hobbyist to the businessman, homeowner and student, software companies have discovered that they cannot survive on technology alone. They must develop skills in marketing, distribution and advertising. Says Edward Currie, president of Lifeboat Associates, a leading software publisher: "The software industry is turning into a cosmetics industry. In cosmetics, you worry about the box first, then the bottle inside it and, finally, the contents of the bottle. The same thing is happening in software...
...vecoeur said of his adopted land: "Individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men." Americans embittered by the wars of Europe knew that fusing diversity into unity was more than a poetic ideal, it was a practical necessity. In 1820 future Congressman Edward Everett warned, "From the days of the Tower of Babel, confusion of tongues has ever been one of the most active causes of political misunderstanding...
Doing double duty as speaker and proud parent or uncle at no fewer than three commencements last week, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 51, could not have been more in evidence if he were running for President-or head of the P.T.A. He returned to his alma mater, the Fessenden School in West Newton, Mass., where his youngest son, Patrick, 15, was graduating from the ninth grade. Next came Brown University for the graduation of Nephew John F. Kennedy Jr., 22. But it was last week's graduation of Daughter Kara, 23, from Tufts University that created an unusual family...
Deprived multitudes who do not know that a trireme was a three-tiered galley and Edward George Bulwer-Lytton was the author of The Last Days of Pompeii may have more luck with the gummy red spaceship that moves around the outskirts of Duluth. It contains a race of highly competent centipedes who can change themselves into beautiful women or Hubert Humphrey. The aliens do not threaten the commonweal nearly as much as do the Aztec Terrorists Society, a black drug dealer named Big John and Police Lieutenant Darlene Ecks, who enjoys strip-searching suspects...