Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does a British-born Washingtonian become a popular gossip columnist syndicated in about 30 papers across the country? She scrounged a job in the Washington Star's classified ad department and rose through the ranks. Wait. We hear she was fired from that spot...
...Rose Shelton...
...look at the latest doleful statistics. The consumer price index in October rose at a compound annual rate of 10% for the second month in a row. Food and beverages jumped at a rate of 10%, housing 12.7% and gasoline 18.2%. For the first time the overall index went above the 200 mark, meaning that today's battered dollar buys only half what it did in 1967, when the big price leaps began to pay for the Viet Nam War. In terms of real, aftertax buying power, many Americans are earning less now than they did then...
...Bergerac. Tall, suave and mustached, he is a French-born Basque who looks and talks (in Gallic-flavored English) like the kind of smoothy who should be running a cosmetics empire. But he started out as an electric power salesman, trained as a manager in the ITT cauldron, and rose to head that conglomerate's European operations, a job that taught him about acquisitions, finance, and the making and marketing of just about anything. At Revlon, while continuing to broaden the product line and promoting some new merchandising ideas, Chairman Bergerac, now 46, talks a language that was long unfamiliar...
...Government--although Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill were conspicuous by their absence. There was a flash of April anger, as protesters denounced the naming of the school's library after an industrialist who had made his fortune in the South African gold trade. Mark Smith, a black senior, rose to address the crowd on the issue, and he spoke with power and elegance. The crowd applauded and left, to don their tuxes and gowns for the formal ball that night. The politicians went back to their trade...