Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Need a hired hand in Florida? Dial the Capitol in Tallahassee. Newly inaugurated Governor Robert Graham just took in $24 for an eight-hour day laying sod. "It's good for you psychologically. It cleans out the cobwebs of the day-today crises you normally deal with," says Graham, 42, who literally worked his way into office by spending 100 days of his campaign at odd jobs. Among them: scrubbing bedpans, covering a police beat, hefting fertilizer and tuning Toyotas. The idea was to "get in touch with the people" (and perhaps make voters forget his roots...
...Scott Powers W 3 4 7 6 Bob McDonald C 2 5 7 10 Randy Millen W 3 3 6 2 Tom Murray W 1 4 5 8 Steve Andrews C 2 3 5 2 John Dunderdale D 1 4 5 8 Jack Burke W 0 4 4 14 Graham Carter D 0 3 3 6 Mitch Olson D 0 3 3 14 Alan Litchfield D 1 0 1 6 Phil Evans W 0 1 1 0 Owen Cote W 0 0 0 0 Wade Lau G 0 0 0 0 John Hynes...
...ranks 59th on the FORTUNE 500 list, with 1978 sales of $4.3 billion, earnings of $181 million, and more than 100,000 employees. Through its subsidiaries, the New York-based conglomerate produces movies (Saturday Night Fever, Grease) and TV series (Laverne & Shirley, Mark & Mindy), publishes books (bestsellers by Graham Greene and Irving Wallace), owns Madison Square Garden and several athletic teams (including New York's basketball Knicks and Washington, D.C.'s soccer Diplomats). G&W also sells insurance, makes consumer and commercial loans, processes sugar, and manufactures clothing, electronic equipment, paper and auto parts...
...suit, Sears asks the courts to declare its existing affirmative action program to be in full accord with the law. Insists Ray Graham, Sears' director of equal opportunity: "We've made a tremendous effort to comply." He notes that since 1966 the company proportion of women managers has risen from 20% to 36%; of women craftworkers from 3.8% to 8.1%; of black managers from 4% to 7.2%; and of black craftworkers from 2.8% to 8.9%. But the EEOC now demands that 50% of new management positions and 33% of new craft openings be given to women and Sears...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, and Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, met with the SAC members to discuss their requests, initially formulated in an open letter last month to Graham T. Allison '62, dean of the Kennedy School of Government...