Word: mervyn
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...Australians aspired to a house on a quarter-acre block, children played in the backyard after school, and people did their own chores, like mowing grass and baking cakes. The Victa lawnmower was featured in the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics; 7 million Victas have been sold since Mervyn Richardson produced the first model at his home in Sydney...
...received $8.8 million from Target shoppers--nearly a tenth of the Salvation Army's total $93.8 million holiday haul. Several Christian groups, including Concerned Women for America and the American Family Association, have protested the ban and are encouraging their members to shop elsewhere. Fears of a boycott led Mervyn's, a former Target subsidiary, to reverse its own ban last week, but so far Target's 1,313-store chain is standing firm with its bah, humbug. --By Jeffrey Ressner. With reporting by Frank Sikora
Emigration was the only way out--Mervyn left for the States and worked in hospital maintenance before joining a bank, while Joyce got a job as a nurse in Britain, then in New York State. The couple met and married in Albany, N.Y., and finally settled in Springboro, Ohio, where Mervyn's banking career flourished. He worked his way up the ladder to become the president of KeyBank's Dayton office. Joyce worked at local hospitals and raised the children...
...active volunteers, felt dutybound to do even more. "Coming to the U.S. and [having the chance] to capitalize on so many opportunities, we always had the feeling that we'd been given so much blessing, and there was only one reason why--to share with the less fortunate," says Mervyn...
...blackouts and an irregular water supply were part of daily life. "I learned that you can really live very happily as long as you have good relationships with the people around you. You don't have to have all the amenities that we in this country seem to have," Mervyn says...