Word: roland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Roland Flamini and Lawrence Malkin/Madrid
Britons were horrified last month when Rupert Murdoch, the sensation-mongering Australian publisher, bought London's revered though unprofitable Times newspapers. Now another Fleet Street stalwart, the 190-year-old Sunday Observer, has been sold to an improbable new owner. He is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, the chief executive of a $5 billion. London-based conglomerate called Lonrho Ltd.; his secretiveness and taste for takeovers have led him to be described by a former Prime Minister as "the unacceptable face of capitalism...
However, the president of the Cambridge Teachers' Association (CTA), Roland E. Lachance, said last night that the CTA would take the school committee before the state Labor Relations Board and then to court because the plan's minority staffing clause violates the CTA's contract by rejecting seniority in deciding who will be laid...
...president of the Cambridge Teachers Association, Roland E. Lachance, said yesterday that if any teachers are laid off for reasons not specifically mentioned in the teachers contract the union would take action against the school committee--either through collective bargaining or in the courts...
...sunny dream worlds where harsh lights and bright colors take on a chilling unreality. Alcott's style couldn't be more wrong for the South Bronx. When he does try to capture the ugliness of the locale, his photography becomes more grainy than gritty. And then, there's Rita Roland, from the Lizzie Borden School of Film Editing. Many times, she cuts away from a scene with a character in mid-gesture or midsentence; the annoying discontinuity from one shot to the next disorients the viewer and further debilitates the already feeble storyline...