Word: roger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dunster, for example, the number of electricians went from 40 to 80, according to Roger J. Cayer Jr., Harvard's project manager...
...current U.S. auto boom would not be as robust without so-called voluntary restraints that limit the number of high-quality, attractively priced Japanese autos that Americans can buy. Industry leaders are intent on holding down labor costs to keep their cars competitive with the imports. Says GM Chairman Roger Smith: "Back in the '40s and '50s, the concerns were GM vs. Ford and vs. Chrysler. What happens here now affects GM vs. Toyota, vs. Volkswagen, and vs. everyone else." Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell puts it differently but the message is the same: "It's a global...
...choose blonds instead of brunets, or boys instead of girls. A German clinic in Essen claims that its sperm donors include "no fat men, no long ears, no hook noses . . ." "We can talk in impressive pseudoscientific terms about how we want to help society," says the Rev. Roger Shinn, professor of social ethics at New York's Union Theological Seminary, "but as long as genetic manipulation is the motive, what we would be doing is what Hitler intended...
...crashed straight into it. The window exploded all over him. I held his face to assess the damage, but he got off lucky: shaken up, with a scratch on his nose. He was sure he had been heading for a door because the space looked so clear. -By Roger Rosenblatt
...marketplace, Mindset Corp. in Sunnyvale decided to set sail. It announced its first personal computer in March, several years behind the competition. Result: though Mindset's IBM-compatible machine was well received, it has not found space in dealers' showrooms. Admits President and Co-Founder Roger Badertscher: "It has been a tough summer. We probably picked the worst time to ship a new computer." Mindset laid off its entire 42-person manufacturing staff in mid-July, and is now trying to clear its shelves and come up with a new product...