Word: jr
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Take the making of metal buildings and building products: it is a most unglamorous, cyclical and slow-growth business. Yet it yields Houston-based NCI Building Systems more than a dime of operating income on each dollar of sales, according to chairman C.A. Rundell Jr. That is nearly double the industry average. Besides, NCI has grown from a small regional operator to one with 38 plants in 17 states and another in Mexico, and sales of $675 million for fiscal 1998, which ended Oct. 31 (vs. less than $40 million nine years earlier...
...Married Well: John Duncan Jr. (R., Tenn.), whose wife won $5,200 on a slot machine...
...Guys Who Collect Coins: William Archer Jr. (R., Texas), collection value: $16,326; Steve Largent (R., Okla.), more than $30,000; Philip Crane (R., Ill.), more than $50,000; and Ronald Paul (R., Texas), more than...
...Seamus Heaney, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Alice Walker, Will Smith, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Goodman '63, Patricia O'Brien, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language Patricia Powell, Elizabeth McCracken, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. '60, Alphonse Flethcer Jr. University Professor Cornel West '74, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors and many others. And I didn't even begin to touch Harvard...
...senior fellow is Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, the chair and CEO of the Kirby Corporation. Legend has it that until recently, Stone had not spoken to an undergraduate since his own days at Harvard...