Word: newports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore Michael Gibbs, junior Nathan Koenig, and freshman Cory Thabit were honored based on their respective performances in the New England Invitational, last month's Ivy League championships and last week's all-star game in Newport...
...Oklahoma farm-mortgage broker, Walton earned an economics degree from the University of Missouri and joined J.C. Penney in 1940 as an $85-a-month trainee. After serving in the Army, he pooled his savings and borrowed $25,000 to buy a Ben Franklin store in Newport, Ark., in 1945. By the late 1950s he owned more than a dozen similar stores, but decided that the future was in discounting rather than in five-and-dimes. After studying a K mart in Chicago, Walton and his younger brother James, now a company senior vice president, opened the first Wal-Mart...
...Paul Butterfield, 44, innovative harmonica player of the 1960s and co- founder of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which helped introduce city blues to rock audiences; of undetermined causes; in Los Angeles. The band backed Bob Dylan when he used an electric guitar, a controversial move, at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, but became celebrated in its own right for cleverly merging blues, rock, folk and jazz themes...
...Seattle-based Smoking Policy Institute, a consulting firm that advises companies on how to formulate smoking policies: "The fact is, most smokers want to quit." Many of them embrace the new corporate activism as an incentive to give up tobacco once and for all. At Rhode Island's Newport Daily News, it was the smokers who unanimously voted to ban smoking from the premises, although taking a drag is not a cause for dismissal...
...popular associate professor of history who was denied tenure last fall said yesterday he has accepted a two-year position with the Naval War college in Newport, Rhode Island...