Word: elders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scion of an Atlanta banking family, Robinson, 55, maintains a courtly manner and has donned the mantle of corporate elder statesman by frequently testifying before Congress and speaking out on pet issues like the benefits of free trade. Chairman since 1977, he has managed to portray himself as a leader above the fray of day-to-day problems, which has earned him a reputation as a Teflon-coated executive...
...120th Street in Harlem. It surprised employees at 200 Varick Street, where Strachan had worked for 20 years. It stunned the choir at the Greater Refuge Temple, where he sang bass- baritone. "We said, 'That's not the Leroy Strachan we know -- he wouldn't hurt a fly,' " says elder Charles Wright. "He's not the sneaky, runaway kind of guy." Then there were Leroy's children, who had no idea that for 45 years, their father had lived with a secret that finally caught up with him. Perhaps it was poetic justice that one of his three sons works...
...role. To allay fears that Gorbachev might be acting as his front man for a resurgent Russia, Yeltsin promised that his gargantuan republic would not dominate any confederative structure. "The Russian state, which has chosen democracy and freedom, will never be an empire, neither a younger nor an elder brother," he said. "It will be an equal among equals...
Born into an erudite New York City family in 1910, Loesser for a while seemed the least likely to succeed. His father Henry was a respected piano teacher. After being widowed, his mother Julia translated and lectured on modern literature. His elder half brother Arthur was a pianist and musicologist who ultimately headed the piano department of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Friends of the family were surprised that Frank, not Arthur, achieved top musical renown; they affectionately called him the "evil of the two Loessers...
...work when she arrived at his window to mail a bowling ball and other possessions to her former husband, now living in Wyoming. The prospect of a daughter-in-law who is both a divorcee and the mother of two small children, Agatha and Thomas, does not thrill the elder Bedloes, but a courtship of only a few weeks is followed by a wedding and then, seven months later, the birth of an obviously full-term baby girl. Ian does not believe the child is Danny's; roped into baby-sitting duties so that Lucy can get out once...