Word: herman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cleveland: "We can't have them taking all the jobs to Mexico, and we can't have all our jobs replaced by robots. I can't really afford a strike, but I've been saving. I'm good for about eight weeks." Rick Herman, 39, a dyemaker in the Parma plant, was psychologically ready to walk out. Said he: "I'm looking forward to a strike. I've seen guys with 15 years' seniority out on the street or told to go to Texas or California or Toledo. The money you lose...
HOSPITALIZED. Jean Harris, 61, former school headmistress now serving a 15-year-to-life sentence for killing Scarsdale Diet Doctor Herman Tarnower; after suffering a heart attack at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, where she has been incarcerated since 1981; in Valhalla...
...years ago. In fact, the author, with customary hubris, goes so far as to quote his previous work as an example of a historic consensus: world government can be the only real solution to the nuclear crisis--this consensus, by the way, includes such luminaries as nuke guru. Herman Kahn, Harvard's Living With Nuclear Weapons gang, MIT nuclear specialist George Rathjens. Bertrand Russell, Grenville Clark, and Louis B. Sohn Schell explains parenthetically. "I take the liberty of quoting myself again only because I wish to acknowledge my former adherence to a point of view with which I now propose...
...hell out of Christine's beachhouse inferno. He is, infact, put in the position of playing straight man to all the outrageous "clues" the plot offers Krabbe's magnificent portrayal of a very un-straight obsession keeps the character from being an imbecile, even given the vacuous tackiness of Herman, Christine's lover and his object of lust. Herman turns out to be a German plumbing contractor who not only looks, but sounds, like a talking centerfold...
...Timberland shoe company (1983 sales: $60 million), based in the rural hamlet of Newmarket, N.H., has weathered the foreign onslaught and added 900 workers over the past five years. "We benefited from the lack of imagination of some of the other old shoe companies around here," says Herman Swartz, president of the family-owned concern. Fully one-quarter of Timberland's sales have come from exports since its classic penny loafers became a hit in Europe...