Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hook in this remark is that the speaker happens to be an innovative character in a historical novel of a high imaginative order. Flanagan, 64, a professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, first demonstrated his gift for evoking the past in the constant shimmer of good fiction eight years ago, when he published The Year of the French. The work received broad acclaim and was the National Book Critics Circle's choice as the best novel of 1979. It is a rich and complex telling of a rebellion on the west coast of Ireland...
...minute America's best-known jurist bangs his gavel, onlookers in the nation's most famous courtroom attentively come to order. Not the U.S. Supreme Court, silly -- The People's Court, with 11 million viewers daily, featuring Judge Joseph Wapner and his 30-minute brand of homespun jurisprudence. Now in A View from the Bench (Simon & Schuster; $17.95), the judge describes the evolution of his electronic philosophy...
...been a big boon in racing and horse-show circles." Racing has become such big business that young horses increasingly compete regularly when they are only two years old, before their bodies are fully mature. Equine Specialist Howard Seeherman of Tufts uses the treadmill % to condition yearlings in order to reduce injuries and improve performance. Says he: "There are so few months between their first saddling and their first race that most young horses need specialized training...
Because the two sides still do not concur on the order in which they should discuss a wide range of issues. including salaries, benefits and job classification. Wednesday's negotiation meeting lasted only nine minutes, said clerical workers union President Lucille A. Dickess...
...order to ensure that workers are paid the same amount for the same work, the unions also want to reduce the number of job categories, he said...