Word: raying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suit, Sears asks the courts to declare its existing affirmative action program to be in full accord with the law. Insists Ray Graham, Sears' director of equal opportunity: "We've made a tremendous effort to comply." He notes that since 1966 the company proportion of women managers has risen from 20% to 36%; of women craftworkers from 3.8% to 8.1%; of black managers from 4% to 7.2%; and of black craftworkers from 2.8% to 8.9%. But the EEOC now demands that 50% of new management positions and 33% of new craft openings be given to women and Sears...
This takes guts," remarked Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton last week as he signed an official document...
...Nelan's latest assignment demonstrated how swiftly that same bureaucracy can function when the word is passed by its highest echelons. Within hours after permission for the interview was suddenly granted, visas were ready at the Soviet embassy in Washington for Corporate Editor Henry Grunwald and Managing Editor Ray Cave. Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan received his summons to Moscow while in Jordan on another assignment. No problem: a telegram from Moscow to Amman was all that was needed to clear Duncan's entry into the Soviet Union...
Small wonder, then, that a lithe, black-bearded man is nimbly dashing among three octagonally shaped enclosures, known as pits, where the trading takes place. Ray Cahnman, 34, is resplendent in a jacket that is Kelly green, the identifying color of a clearinghouse that guarantees his credit. Suddenly he spots the man who is bobbing up and down in the crush like a crazed jack-in-the-box and still screaming "Even 17 D's!" Raymond Elbin, wearing the apple red coat of another clearinghouse, is offering to buy 17 $100,000 Treasury bonds next December...
...display spontaneous animation. At one point he picked up a bent paper clip, twirled it almost delicately in one large hand until all eyes were concentrating on it and then thumped the table strongly, saying, "Mir, mir, i yeshche raz mir" (peace, peace, and once again peace). Later, when Ray Cave said he hoped they would meet again at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, Brezhnev raised both arms high and, like a man who looks forward to many more years of power and pleasure in life, replied with great delight, "Absolutely...