Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Llama Shop, on the other hand, desperately needs part-time employees, said owner Edgar Thompson. According to Thompson, "We always need part time help, but this year it's more extreme. In the past we had a few applications, but now we have none...
...Rent Control Board has five members: one single family home owner, two tenant representatives and two landlord representatives. representatives...
...most eerily advanced computerized operation of all may be nestled away on the twelfth floor of Boston's modernistic concrete-and-glass Federal Reserve Building, headquarters of the Batterymarch Financial Management investment firm. Owner Dean LeBaron has designed his own programs for a brace of Prime mainframe computers that daily spit out a list of several hundred sale or purchase contracts, usually for stocks in batches of 5,000 or 10,000 shares. The list is composed by the computers themselves, based on their general instructions of what and when to buy and sell. Up to 23 specially authorized brokers...
Sales of the Ozbek line jumped 264% to a neat $1 million last year. He is backed by a Geneva-based oil company, Gulf Shipping, whose owner met Ozbek at a party and considered him such a comer that he has never bothered to see a collection. Unlike Kelly, who has found himself without enough money to ride the Metro, Ozbek receives both salary and commission from Gulf. For a young designer, it seems like a snug setup, but Ozbek keeps things modest. His offices overlook a cranny-like courtyard in Mayfair, his staff numbers seven, and his fashion shows...
Sympathy for crime victims who fight back -- even when they have clearly violated the law -- is common. Two weeks ago, a jury considering charges under the much publicized handgun ban in Oak Park, Ill., acquitted a frequently robbed gas-station owner who used a pistol to shoot at armed thieves as they fled. Earlier this year a New York City judge dismissed weapon-possession charges against a subway token clerk who had killed a mugger with an unlicensed...