Word: jay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard wrestling Coach Jay Weiss sure knows how to recruit. For the past three seasons, one of Weiss' rookies has claimed the title of Ivy League Rookie of the year. Now it appears that his consistent work is starting...
...jerky fanciers are mostly blue-collar types, some of whom buy tube-shaped sausages 14 in. long and weighing half a pound. But in Japan the yuppies who regard jerky as a prestige snack prefer comparatively dainty 6-in. pieces. "The healthy Midwestern appetite doesn't apply there," says Jay Link. Russians are just beginning to encounter beef jerky. Link's distributors in Russia take care to place the tubes on store racks next to potato chips and small cakes so that shoppers will know they are snack food. Link products sell for 10% to 15% more than competing snacks...
...worker plant in Alpena, S.D., to the Minong factory, which employs 325 workers. Export sales are growing faster, though, and the company is eyeing Costa Rica, Malaysia and Nicaragua as potential new markets. Within two years, it expects exports to account for 25% of total sales. All of which Jay Link sometimes finds hard to believe. Says he: "For us to come out of a town in the north woods and make it worldwide has been somewhat of an amazement to me." --Reported by Marc Hequet/St. Paul...
...Reported by Bernard Baumohl/ New York, Jay Branegan/Vancouver, Kim Gooi/Hanoi and Bruce van Voorst/Washington, with other bureaus
...more formal connection. In addition to Clinton and Blumenthal, the Americans at Chequers included Housing Secretary ANDREW CUOMO, Budget Director Franklin Raines, Deputy Treasury Secretary LAWRENCE SUMMERS and Democratic Leadership Council president AL FROM. Besides Blair and Mandelson, the Brits included Chancellor of the Exchequer GORDON BROWN; Baroness MARGARET JAY, deputy leader of the House of Lords; and ANTHONY GIDDENS, the director of the London School of Economics. Hillary was a driving force. Says Mandelson: "She had a tremendous presence...