Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shortly after the meeting, Counter's personalspokesman, Edward L. Doyle, released thisstatement: "After long and hard consideration ofthe Medgar Evers offer, and after meeting withseveral personal advisers upon my return to theUnited States, the following conclusions havebecome apparent, first that there is considerabledoubt regarding the continued existence and viability ofMedgar Evers College as an independentinstitution...
FACE-LIFT. Edward Kennedy, finally looking 20 lbs. lighter and free of the burden of presidential speculation. His speech lacked the soaring "The dream shall never die" high of 1980, but his antiphonal "Where was George?" may become the refrain of the Democratic campaign...
That situation has outraged labor leaders, who have pressured Congress into considering a major revision of the minimum-wage law. Similar bills, introduced in the Senate by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy and in the House by California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, would increase the base pay of American workers to $4.55 by 1991 and then automatically peg it to 50% of the national average wage (currently $9.28). The Democratic Party platform adopted in Atlanta last week calls for a minimum that rises automatically with inflation. But lawmakers have bogged down in a debate over whether the move would help or hurt...
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Edward L. Jamieson, Ronald Kriss...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Amy Wilentz, Laurence Zuckerman...