Word: roster
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...society's 360 "reading rooms" sold about $4,000,000 worth of materials. In addition to books and pamphlets, the society publishes a monthly magazine called American Opinion, a monthly newsletter and a weekly Review of the News. It runs a speaker's bureau that has a roster of 250 people. Its taped 15-minute broadcast, The John Birch Report, is used by 175 radio stations...
With a current roster of just 60 members, corporations with sales of $1 billion or more a year form U.S. business' most exclusive club. Last week, noting a mutual dependence on that "ever renewable natural resource, the tree," Manhattan's U.S. Plywood Corp. (annual sales: $541,349,000) and Hamilton, Ohio's Champion Papers Inc. ($456,313,000) announced a merger that, with normal growth, should easily create a new member of the club. With stockholders' approval, Champion Papers President and Chairman Karl R. Bendetsen, 58, and U.S. Plywood President Gene C. Brewer, 52, will head...
What Perry always had was sizzling speed, the kind that gave him five no-hitters as a high school ace back home in Williamston, N.C. In 1958, the Giants shelled out $60,000 just to get him on the roster, but for a while it seemed a forlorn investment. His fastball was wild, and when he tried to develop a slider (or fast curve) it was too slow. It took eight years and several elevator rides to the minors before Perry learned to improve his control, to keep the ball low and to give himself another effective pitch. This spring...
Code Name Venus. Toward this end, the White House has more and more resembled a strategic command post as the prenuptial months shortened into weeks, the weeks into days. Mother and bride pored endlessly over lists of names before culling a roster of 700-plus guests. Myriad flowers were planted and nurtured, a raft of invitations elegantly addressed by three staff calligraphers. Dresses had to be selected for the bride and her attendants, a trousseau acquired, security arrangements settled and-after a parade of cardboard-and-frosting mock-up models worthy of changeover season in Detroit-the wedding cake approved...
...scenery, which would be crucial to any production of the play, is successful insofar as it conveys the eccentric spirit of the author. A kiosk -- inhabited by Miss Sonnenblick of The Lesson -- and a backdrop of babies are the most effective items on a vast scenery roster...