Word: edwardes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leading Edge, however, is by no means the least expensive of the IBM- compatibles. That distinction goes to a group of 100 or so plucky manufacturers, 60% of them Asian, that produce machines with typical price tags of less than $600. Carrying obscure labels such as Thompson, Harriman & Edward, Computer Dynamics and American Mitac, these firms' products are called no-names by the industry because they have virtually no name recognition. Despite the pejorative description, computer experts suggest that the no-names may pose the greatest threat to IBM. Says Margaret Rodenberg, a vice president at Entre Computer Centers...
...Island. Midway across New York harbor, just past the refurbished Statue of Liberty, a homeless Cuban refugee named Juan Gonzalez, 43, unsheathed a 2-ft. sword he had been carrying. Shouting incoherently, he began slashing and stabbing anybody who stood in his way. Retired New York City Police Officer Edward del Pino, 55, seeing panicky passengers stampeding past him on the ferry's deck, rushed inside in time to see Gonzalez slash a woman to death. Pino, en route home from his job as a security guard, pulled out a .38-cal. pistol and fired a shot into...
Toward the end, worn down by their geek chorus of friends, Lowe and Moore split up. Faced with this boy-loses-girl plot, Director Edward Zwick might have tried dramatizing the poignant detumescence of a love affair. It's part of the emotional nitrogen cycle: people do get over the people they have loved. But not people in Hollywood movies--at least not in movies made by directors so ruthlessly intent on imitating models they could never believe...
...real compromise agreement," said Edward W. Powers, Harvard's general counsel for labor relations. "It wasn't a Harvard victory or a union victory; the employees...
...immediate payment on short-term loans to South Africa because of the deteriorating situation, the country virtually panicked. The level of the national currency, the rand, plummeted, and in September the government declared a moratorium on repaying its $14 billion in short-term bank loans. Says Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga: "If Pretoria will not listen to arguments based on rights, it will listen to arguments based on rands." But no one expects measures against South African trade to be nearly as effective as the banking action. Some businessmen somewhere will always find ways to beat the boycott and make...