Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Korean-run outlets have sprouted around the city. They account for 85% of the independent fruit-and-vegetable stores, and have taken a 20% bite out of supermarket business. "They've forced retailers like us to sell better-quality produce and display it more attractively," says Jules Rose, chairman of Sloan's, a citywide grocery chain...
...Chrysler's now defunct De Soto plant in Detroit. Fraser, who became a citizen with his parents in the late 1920s, followed his father into the factory and became active in the fledgling United Auto Workers union during the organizing drives that preceded World War II. He rose through the ranks to serve as U.A.W. president for six years, beginning in 1977, and earned a reputation as one of the nation's most respected labor leaders and a champion of liberal causes. He is now a professor of labor studies at Wayne State University. "My father loved this country from...
...annual rate of 3.1% for the second quarter of 1985. While that remains well below 1984's gain of 6.8%, it is far more robust than the annual increase of 0.3% compiled in the first three months of this year. A major reason for the improvement: consumer spending, which rose 1% in April and another...
Bobby Caldwell had been convicted of killing a grocery store owner in the course of a robbery, and a Mississippi jury was deciding his fate. After pleading for Caldwell's life, his lawyer concluded rather conventionally by telling the jurors that theirs was an "awesome responsibility." The prosecutor then rose and, surprisingly, challenged this cliche. The jurors' burden was not so great, he implied, since every death sentence is reviewable by the Mississippi Supreme Court. The jury voted for death...
...Cambridge is really neat. I read about all this historical stuff growing up, about the revolutionary war, and now I just get off the subway and here it all is," said Hugh J. Murphy, a resident of Santa Rose, Calif who stopped by the new information booth one day last week, laden with backpack, to find out where he could stay while doing temporary work in Cambridge...