Word: gino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ticonderoga Co., based in Heathrow, Fla., a 203-year-old maker of pens, pencils, chalks, watercolors, highlighters and other types of markers, is slashing its marketing budget in spite of a hefty 14% increase in sales last year. "We have to hunker down here," says company president and CEO Gino N. Pala. "We have to watch things closely. I don't think we've felt the worst of the economic crunch yet. I think the damage has already been done, but we've got to work through it." He says that he intends to keep his staffing "flat...
...weeks ago, University of Connecticut Women's Basketball Coach Gino Auriemma arranged to give his injured star player Nykesha Sales the chance to break the UConn scoring record. He and Villanova Coach Harry Perretta created a two-play game-within-the-game in which Sales was allowed an uncontested basket to let her break the record, and Villanova was allowed a reciprocal freebie. (In an ironic twist, ESPN Magazine reported yesterday that a mistake in the record-keeping of an earlier game led to an incorrect point total for Sales, and she has not technically broken the record...
Cultivate the coif. While many thrifty students embrace Old Man Winter by hibernating their hairdos, this solution provides little added warmth. Springboard off of your shaggy friends and commit yourself to Gino's for an afternoon of highlighting, lowlighting and spotlighting...
Harvard starter Frank Hogan got senior Michael Keck to pop out to third, then got senior Gino Barbera to bounce into a 6-4-3 inning-ending double play. Hogan ran off the mound pumping his first and shouting into the Princeton dugout...
...DIED. GINO SANTI, 81, U.S. Air Force engineer who developed the pilot ejection system; in Dayton, Ohio. To replace the clumsy climb out of the cockpit, Santi devised a controlled explosion to propel a pilot safely away from a crippled plane...