Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Managing Editor Matthew Storin quit last summer after a squabble with Janeway, the editor grew even more reliant on Driscoll. Janeway tried to ingratiate himself by running minor details of the newspaper's operations past his deputy, but that only made Janeway seem indecisive. Tensions rose over Janeway's strong interest in national and foreign news and the equally strong desire of Driscoll to play up local stories. Though the Globe covered Boston as thoroughly under Janeway as it had under Winship, the perception grew in the newsroom that the paper's editor preferred reading about the French elections...
...Says David Grasemere, a New Milford, Conn., Volkswagen dealer: "Japanese dealers may soon have to start offering incentives to sell their higher-priced cars." As the balance of competitive power between Japanese and American automakers appeared to be shifting last week, shares of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler all rose on Wall Street...
...offering treatment to users who came forward and threatening to fire those caught with drugs at work. The company also gives urine tests to job applicants. Since the program started, absenteeism is down 25%, and medical claims, which had been rising steadily at an average rate of 23% annually, rose only 6% last year. Moreover, the company had fewer on-the-job accidents in 1985 than in any previous year. Says Vice President J. Patrick Sanders: "I don't think that all of the improvements are directly related to the drug program. But it's got to be more than...
...Senate seat of the retiring Herbert Lehman and carried the state against New York City Mayor Robert Wagner by 460,000 votes in 1956. His welcome in the Senate, whose clubby atmosphere then included more than a whiff of anti-Semitism, was less than warm. "When I rose to speak in those early days, the whole chamber was still," he later recalled. "Still and cold...
...strains of the Internationale, the Communist anthem, faded as Mikhail Gorbachev rose one last time to drive home his message in the Kremlin's cavernous Palace of Congresses. He began by hailing the 5,000 delegates and distinguished foreign guests at the 27th Communist Party Congress, which had given him a resounding mandate to revitalize the country's sputtering economy. Then he threw down the gauntlet. "Here's to the work we've done, comrades," declared the General Secretary. "And now for the work yet to be done...