Word: roberte
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According to city officials, the proposal, which would take effect January I, would encourage conservation and even out the rate burden. Water use has already been declining over the past 20 years, according to City Manager Robert W. Healy, but he said it is still too high...
PUBLISHER: Robert L. Miller...
...executives are beginning to demand that editors join the management team rather than pit themselves against it. Editors, they say, can no longer afford to stay aloof from such down-and-dirty concerns as advertising, circulation, production and revenues. "The role of the newspaper editor today has changed," says Robert Giles, vice president and executive editor of the Gannett-owned Detroit News and author of Newsroom Management: A Guide to Theory and Practice. "The trick is to be able to understand management so that you can fulfill your responsibilities in these new areas and continue to have the time...
...dozens of places where premium increases show no sign of slowing, Proposition 103 could become a rallying cry. Robert Hunter, president of the National Insurance Consumer Organization, a Virginia-based group, says he has been "deluged" with calls from drivers eager to have their own states cut rates...
When House minority leader Robert H. Michel went high-stepping down memory lane last week, he wound up in the brier patch. In a televised interview, the Illinois Republican embellished a fond recollection of Amos 'n' Andy -- the old radio show denounced by civil rights organizations for its stereotypical portrayals of blacks -- with an eye-rolling imitation of the character Kingfish. Then he allowed that "it's too bad" that schoolchildren can no longer don blackface and appear in minstrel shows. Finally he lamented the practice of changing racially offensive lyrics in songs like Ol' Man River, likening...