Word: ralph
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...corporations. Thus the league in a sense serves as a bridge between white executives and black ghettos. Although the people helped by the league are generally poor, many blacks regard it as a middle-class organization, but Jordan has won the respect of blacks from all backgrounds. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, calls Jordan "one of the ablest and most articulate voices in the civil and human rights movement...
First came a long-awaited report prepared by researchers working for Ralph Nader. The 300-page indictment attacked every phase of the ETS operation, long the dominant force in the standardized testing industry...
...Four-to-six story buildings are what developers need to operate. We're not talking about skyscrapers," Ralph Hoagland, who owns the Orson Welles complex, said...
...ravening Huns. For the past seven months a clutch of Hell's Angels has been on trial in San Francisco's Federal Building, accused of having spent the '70s conspiring to be racketeers. The proceedings are known officially as The United States of America vs. Ralph Barger...
...C.E.O., reaches the firm's mandatory executive retirement age of 65, and James R. Shepley, who will then be 63, steps down as president. (Shepley will remain a director, chairman of the executive committee and chairman of the Washington Star, a Time Inc. subsidiary.) At the same time, Ralph P. Davidson, 52, now a vice president and director, will become chairman of the board, reporting to Munro. Another vice president and director, Clifford J. Grum, 45, moves up to executive vice president. Says Heiskell: "They make a team that, if successful, has a chance for a good...