Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After four years in the trade job, Blumenthal in 1967 became president of Bendix Corp., the Detroit-area conglomerate (auto parts to mobile homes). He rose to become chairman, and under his leadership Bendix was known in business circles as one of the best-managed companies in the country. Beyond increasing sales and profits, Blumenthal argued forcefully, business also has a social role. Long before it became fashionable, he conducted an outspoken campaign for corporations to adopt a code of ethics, urging others to emulate Bendix's openly professed policy of refusing to make payoffs to win orders...
...solid sterling is Silverman's reputation that the stock of ABC immediately dropped 1½ points, while RCA, which owns NBC, rose by nearly the same amount. In the offices and hallways of Manhattan's RCA Building, exultation at the Great Silverman Snatch bubbled through every conversation. Said one executive, reflecting on the recent firing of 300 NBCers by the network: "After all this head chopping, they're doing what they should have done in the first place-getting somebody good...
...spite of all that, Ray has moved to Manhattan, where she is studying acting with Lee Strasberg and readying a nightclub act. She plans to tell a joke about Richard Nixon's effort to replace Rose Mary Woods. He wanted, it seems, "someone who could erase 120 words per minute...
...percentage of freshmen who said they hoped to be "very well off financially" rose from 40.1 per cent to 58.2 per cent in the last decade, the survey found...
...they were foiled because this season's outbreak occurred during the Christmas holidays. One indisputable index is the number of deaths, mostly among the aged and infirm, resulting from the pneumonia that so often follows flu. In New York City alone the pneumonia deaths during three weeks rose from...