Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suddenly they became pawns in Ethiopia's guerrilla war. They fell into guerrilla hands on March 26 when their helicopter went down in Eritrea province. Ever since, the men-Powers W. Case, 36, John W. Rogers, 50, both Texans, and Canadian Clifford James, 27, all employees of Tenneco, Inc., along with U.N. Geologist Matti Tavela, 54, an American working in Ethiopia-have been held. Their captors are members of the Eritrean Liberation Front (E.L.F.), which is waging a bloody secessionist battle. Tenneco has already agreed to an E.L.F. demand for $3 million in ransom, but the Ethiopian government refuses...
When Blyth & Co. Inc., the brokerage firm for which he worked as a $25,000-a-year portfolio manager and drug-industry analyst, was merged in 1972 with Eastman Dillon Union Securities Inc., Hannafin lost his job. Like thousands of other Wall Street refugees, he is seeking work and failing to find it as more securities firms cut their staffs, merge or fold...
...department and away from my family a lot." Suddenly, she says, the manager confessed, "I would never be doing this to a man. I would be telling him what a great opportunity it was." As a result of such sessions, says John M. Martin, chairman of Hercules Inc., a chemical producer based in Wilmington, Del., "many of our managers are weighing factors they had not given real attention to before, such as considering women for outside sales jobs." Realizing that women's own attitudes may block their progress, Boyle and Kirkman also conduct awareness sessions among female employees. After...
This dramatic scenario is no longer confined to the daydreams of imaginative exobiologists.* Last week technicians at TRW Inc. in Redondo Beach, Calif., were finishing two miniaturized laboratories that will be able to test Martian soil for evidence of life. Next August, in the climax to NASA'S $1 billion Project Viking, two unmanned spacecraft will be fired aloft from Cape Canaveral. After an eleven-month journey, the Viking ships will swing into orbit around Mars. Each will release a lander containing a life-seeking laboratory. After descending with the aid of parachute and braking rockets, the first sterilized...
...relatively liberal slant on religion from Immanuel's rector, the Rev. William L. Dols Jr., he gets a fundamentalist pitch at home in Michigan. There he has nurtured a close friendship with the Rev. Billy Zeoli, an evangelical minister who is head of Gospel Films Inc. of Muskegon, Mich., and peripatetic chaplain to a number of professional sports teams. Another, probably even stronger evangelical influence is Ford's eldest son Michael, who is currently studying for a divinity degree at staunchly conservative Gordon-Con well Theological Seminary in Massachusetts...