Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World War II B-24 pilot, Pace flew 39 missions. After his plane was hit on a sortie, he bailed out and then spent nine months as a prisoner of the Germans. Following the war, he rose to colonel in the Air Force Materiel Command. He retired in 1954 to join TRW, where he has been ever since, working in the company's aerospace and automotive operations...
...life and my love is Unocal." It is a love affair that goes back to May 1939, when he graduated from the University of British Columbia and came to work at Union Oil, the forerunner of Unocal, as an engineering trainee at the Oleum refinery in San Francisco. He rose quickly through the executive ranks, and has served as chief executive since December...
With a little champagne in the Rose Garden and a good deal of sentiment from Ronald Reagan, the White House troika marched into the history books last week to become another chapter in the arcane world of staffing and running the presidency. Meese, Baker, Deaver, sounding -- and often acting -- like an infield in the American League, now will be part of the lore that includes Nicolay and Hay, who served Lincoln, Colonel House, who advised Wilson, Kennedy's Irish Mafia and the infamous Berlin Wall, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, Nixon's unfortunate duo who ended up in jail...
...Rose Garden affair was a private salute to Deaver, who went off into his own public relations business, the last of the three to find new work. Baker, the Secretary of the Treasury, ribbed him about being an expert "leak" and brought appreciative snorts by invoking the standard White House parry to outsiders: "And remember, Mike, don't call us, we'll call you." Deaver, in reply, pronounced Baker's words "the best speech" that Margaret Tutwiler, Baker's assistant, ever wrote...
...economy is that consumer confidence and retail sales remain robust. Several department store chains last week reported hefty profit gains during the first three months of the year. Earnings were up 17% at Allied Stores, 18% at Dayton Hudson and 21% at Federated. Auto sales in mid-May rose 18.2% over the same period a year...