Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oak, Iowa (pop. 6,800), Stockbroker Winfield Mayne's customers are keeping him busy twelve hours a day with requests for tips and quotes. Says he: "I think the more sophisticated investor here knows he missed the first run-up in August, and he doesn't want to miss this one too." Says C. Derek Anderson, president of his own discount brokerage in San Francisco: "Most definitely the little guy has come back into the market...
...Corp. of Miami, the nation's second largest fast-food restaurant chain (3,500 outlets, $2.3 billion in 1981 sales), launched a provocative $19 million network television ad blitz designed both to grab off a bite of the market from its larger archrival, McDonald's Corp. of Oak Brook, Ill. (1981 sales: $7.6 billion), and to steal a march on third-ranked Wendy's International Inc. of Dublin, Ohio (sales last year: $1.4 billion...
Camp David is truly beautiful, with the cottages and paths snuggled on top and down one side of a small mountain, sheltered by a thick growth of stately oak, poplar, ash, locust, hickory and maple trees. A security fence encompasses about 125 acres of rocky terrain, and the close proximity of the living quarters engenders an atmosphere of both isolation and intimacy, conducive to easing tension and encouraging informality...
This is the 20th anniversary not only of Meredith, but of the death of William Faulkner. He died less than three months before the crisis; he lies now under a towering oak in the town cemetery up the way. The events of that September would likely have broken his heart, as they did the hearts of many Mississippians. "The white people have already lost their heads," he said of those years. "It depends on whether the Negroes can keep theirs." Between then and now there was to be more suffering...
...Oak Brook...