Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innkeeper, whose name was Lyle Wolf, was from Los Angeles. One of a growing number of novices in the trade, he had allowed romanticism to overtake him a couple of years ago, chased the ghost of Thornton Wilder across the continent, and set himself up as a country squire, the possessor of a first-edition mortgage-Bob Newhart with a plumber's helper. His wife's name was Barbara, and Barbara was saying, over wine, that she had a relative hurt in a Corvair...
...struggle at Rath Packing in Waterloo, Iowa, has pitted the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union against itself. In July 1980, 60% of the company was sold to the firm's 2,000 workers to keep it from failing, and Local President Lyle Taylor was installed as company president. But losses continued :o accumulate, and six weeks ago Rath filed for bankruptcy. As part of the reorganization plan, Taylor wants 1,500 production workers to give up some of the generous medical benefits that he once helped negotiate and extend a $2.50-per-hour wage cut that...
...Karen Lyle Burns King of Prussia...
...traders on Wall Street have the choice between something that says Washington on it or something that says Indiana on it, they are going to go for Indiana. We've got a cloud hanging over us." Even the state government is suffering from guilt by association. Says Lyle Jacobsen, assistant state treasurer: "It's scary. We're launching a campaign to tell people that Whoops and the sovereign state of Washington are two separate things. The state will pay its bills...
Each year the CDC accepts 60 or so people involved in health care for a two-year tour of duty with the EIS. "We look for the bright, somewhat aggressive independent thinker," says Dr. Lyle Conrad, head of the division's field service officers. About half are based in Atlanta; the rest are assigned to public health departments around the country, with which the CDC works closely. All are on call 24 hours a day, ready to go wherever a disease breaks out, be it food poisoning or a case of primary pneumonic plague that appeared in 1980 in California...