Word: ralph
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Chairman of the Executive Committee: Ralph P. Davidson...
When the idea for the capsule was conceived by Secretary Hodel this fall, his department asked Ralph Davidson, chairman of the Time Inc. executive committee and a member of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Commission, if TIME would participate in the project. TIME accepted the invitation and selected Rosenblatt as the writer of the letter to the future, which became this week's cover...
...proposed raises, argued the commission, will reverse a 17-year, 41% decline in federal employees' purchasing power and make Government service more attractive. Reagan is expected to scale down the upper pay levels to around $100,000 before sending them on to Congress. Grumbled Consumer Activist Ralph Nader: "Nothing is so absurd as the assertion that these officials can't get by on pay and benefits equal to five times the income of the average American worker...
...camouflage hunting cap approached the horseshoe-shaped meeting table. Whipping out a pistol, he shot one councilman in the head. As city officials ducked for cover, he fired eight more shots. When police arrived they found Mayor Edward King, 53, dead and two council members gravely injured. The gunman, Ralph Orin Davis, 69, had been angry with the city over a backed-up sewer...
...Ralph: That's ten bucks for attacking Joe. Say, Wanda, does it seem dusty in here...