Word: linda
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Fairchild Republic had tried several management programs before, but had been unhappy with all of them. The new method of role playing and teaching by example seems to produce the best results. Says Linda Dwyer, supervisor of training and development: "The other programs were too abstract. They were entertaining, like the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, but they didn't get the ball downfield...
...Linda Patscot, 27, a director of Callahan Research Associates in Manhattan, who earns about $30,000 and owes $ 10,000, argues that younger people do not share their parents' belief in delayed gratification. Says she: "The 'me' generation doesn't save for the future; it borrows to spend today. People are more hedonistic, and hedonism and debt are like brother and sister...
...leaped from roof to roof, from street to street. For three hours, the fire raged out of control as residents in a four-block area of apartment complexes scrambled out of its path and fire-fighting units from neighboring towns helped battle the blaze. "I heard people screaming," recalled Linda Hebert, 21. "Neighbors were waking everybody up, and the police were telling us to leave." More than 2,000 people were evacuated, and some 1,500 were left homeless by the most devastating fire in the history of Orange County. Estimated damages: $50 million. No one was killed...
Like many other U.S. savings and loans, Fidelity had been in financial trouble for some time. Last year it lost $56.9 million. The savings and loan was caught in the now familiar crunch between old longterm, low-interest loans and the high cost of raising new money. Linda Tsao Yang, the California savings and loan commissioner, called Fidelity "a victim of high interest rates." Federal Home Loan Bank Board Chairman Richard T. Pratt tried to calm nervous depositors at Fidelity and other S and Ls by assuring them that the takeover was not the beginning of a trend. Said...
...first time in years, John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, 49, was photographed with ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 39, and Wife Linda, 39. The rendezvous took place over a pricey meal (asparagus and fettuccine with wild mushrooms) at Manhattan's ultra-chic Le Cirque restaurant, and may have been nothing more than "simply a friendly lunch," as a McCartney business aide insisted. The McCartneys and Ono were not the coziest of friends when the group was still together, so the event took on the significance of an unscheduled summit meeting. According to eyewitnesses, the diners chatted amiably enough...