Word: edward
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...many retailers. Consumer installment credit has expanded considerably since the beginning of November. Sears, Roebuck reported a surge of major purchases in the final quarter of last year that has continued through January. "It is clear to us that the recovery in durables and home furnishings has started," says Edward Brennan, chairman of the chain...
Founded by Rice, who has enlisted the assistance of fellow professors to judge the entries (some 700 so far), the contest was named in dishonor of poor Edward G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton. A popular and workmanlike 19th century British novelist, Bulwer-Lytton wrote a book, Paul Clifford, that unfortunately began, "It was a dark and stormy night. . ." Among the exquisitely bad sentences sent to the California (zip code: 95192) judges: "Screaming like a banshee, bargaining like a waterfront drug dealer, bleeding like a side of beef in an abattoir, the Chinese sailor croaked out one word: 'Firelight' (a code...
...brief and tumultuous. Not surprisingly, the marriage was on the rocks before it really got started. After eight days as president of the combined company formed by the merger of Allied Corp. and Bendix Corp., William Agee, 45, decided last week to resign, effective June 1. Reason: Allied Chairman Edward Hennessy would not give him major responsibilities. Said Agee...
...dean of the Faculty, last week and conducted a roundtable discussion with Morton Bloomfield. Porter Professor of English; James J. Culliton, assistant to the vice president at MIT; and Dr. Thomas H. D. Mahoney, a strong proponent of the bill and former secretary of elder affairs under former Gov. Edward J. King. They discussed the bill's implications for universities...
...Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education and the Core, said yesterday that high Core enrollments cause "very serious resource problems and sectioning problems." Wilcox added that he has "no idea" whether he can find resources to accommodate all students in the Core...