Word: owner
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LOSING in basketball tweaked the United States' nationalistic conscience. But when American Matt Biondi, owner of the most famous chest in the world, lost the 100 meter butterfly, even Americans could not help but shelve their loyalty and rejoice in the triumph of the man who defeated him--Anthony Nesty of Suriname...
Alice G. Mandis, owner of Roger's In Harvard Square, a women's clothing store on Dunster St., says she has raised her starting salary for salesmen to $5.50 an hour, the most competitive wage her business can afford. "We get killed by the high-paying specialty jobs," she says...
Elsewhere, street people are said to be the problem. "We had a woman in there one day," says the owner of a gas station just off Capitol Hill. "They saw water running under the door. She was giving herself a bath right out of the sink." But he is an optimist ("At least I got a clean floor"), and he still provides rest-room keys, selectively. Other businesses put their rest rooms permanently out of order...
...meter hurdles. Moses, who freely admits that he is an old man in a young man's sport, won his first gold medal in Montreal, his second in Los Angeles, and had the U.S. not boycotted the 1980 Olympics, might have won three straight. But the owner of track's longest win streak, who got off to a good start this time, seemed to run out of gas in the last 100 meters. Just ahead, his U.S. teammate Andre Phillips held off Senegal's Amadou Dia Ba at the wire to set a new Olympic record of 47.19 sec. "When...
Half of what the day care costs is paid by the owner of the center and the industrial park, Isaac Heller. The founder of Remco toys, Heller, 62, says the center, which is open to all Edison residents, has helped make his park an attractive location for the 38 firms that lease space. Observes Heller: "Not everybody is a yuppie earning $100,000. Some people earn less, and their children deserve the same care as rich people's children...