Word: roper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, with no written contract. Says Donna McLean, a Whirlpool official: "Any customer who represents 43% of your business is going to carry a lot of weight." Sears owns no factories outright, but it does own large shares of some of its suppliers. It has 33% of Roper, its range-maker, 31% of De-Soto, which supplies paints, and 20% of Swift, its textiles provider...
...clerk, has spent his entire career with the system. He is expected to quit at year's end for a job in private industry. Along with the improved efficiency, Bolger's six years as Postmaster General have won more friends for the U.S. mail. A Roper poll last year showed that most Americans give the Postal Service higher marks than the telephone company, insurance firms or hospitals...
...there was a fine page of anecdotes about all the eccentrics who had passed through the newsroom since the days when Ben Hecht and Charlie MacArthur were working on that wonderful play. Editorial-Page Editor Charles Roper, who compiled the memoir, recalled that someone went berserk in the composing room one day and the police had to be summoned. The cops got off on the wrong floor, confronted the nearest writer, Bob Johnson, and said, "We understand you have a crazy man up here." Johnson waved an arm about the room and said, "Take your pick...
When such historians as Hugh Trevor-Roper and David Irving within days of the "discovery" change "yes" to "perhaps" or "no" to "yes," it appears that being on the winning side is more important than intellectual probity. Responsible historians should keep their lips sealed until they have researched the subject properly. The wobbling actions of these experts have dealt historiography a slap...
Buying computers to teach children is increasingly important in the consumer market. Roper found that families with teen-agers were 50% more likely than the average household to have computers. Some surprising statistics: only 2% of computer owners in the Gallup survey expressed little satisfaction with their machines, and only 1% said that they were "not at all satisfied...