Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...banned smoking entirely. Pacific Northwest Bell, with headquarters in Seattle, forbade the practice when it learned that remodeling would run $60,000. Other firms have reached the same conclusion after prolonged hassles. According to Sandy Robins, director of labor relations for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey, the company "tried separating smokers from nonsmokers. We tried time restrictions. We had the air-conditioning system cleaned. We tried smokeless ashtrays. Nothing worked...
...apparently the oldest working American. For the life of him, though, Burin could not understand all the fuss. Even when his cake at NBC's Today show caught fire, engulfing the centenarian in smoke, he was thinking of his job as chairman of the Globe Shipping Co. in Jersey City. "Such confusion," says Burin of his TV appearance. "I just wanted to get to work." In 1902 Burin started as a shipping clerk for the firm in Berlin, moved to London and then to its New York City branch, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1919. Still looking like a young...
...recent Michigan St. grad Bob Jackson, the ultimate outfit for the occasion entailed multi-stage preparation: green hair, green clothes and green buttons. "I bought this jersey with the first paycheck I ever got from dorm work, I've gotten various buttons as presents from friends, and I did the hair and the mustache today, three hours before the game started," he said Saturday night...
...Crimson crowd--mostly returning vacationers and 50-year old alumni--was a tad more subtle. Aside from the band's maroon blazers and an occasional football jersey, Harvard garb was limited, for the most part, to scattered veritas ties and crimson vests...
...real tiger and a real fighter," John recalls, but her struggle to recover ended abruptly during surgery to remove the fetus. Oxygen was inadvertently cut off, causing irreversible brain damage. Nancy Jobes has been in a coma ever since, sustained by a feeding tube in a New Jersey nursing home. John, together with Nancy's parents and siblings, wants to have the feeding tube removed, but faces a battery of legal and medical obstacles. "There is no quality of life," he insists. "Nancy would not want to be in this state...