Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fight. "If I say . . . that the Winter Palace was stormed on Sherbrooke Street, that Trafalgar was fought on Lake St. Louis, I mean it naturally," she says. "They were the natural backgrounds of my exile and fidelity." Her words seem to echo those of James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus. "I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art . . . using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning." . That could be the credo of Mavis Gallant's most affecting heroine...
...retailing in the 1970s, Montgomery Ward could no longer hang on alone. After Mobil took it over, the retailer earned $105 million in 1978, but it soon slipped into the red again. The company was too big, too mismanaged, too out of tune with what consumers wanted. In 1981 Stephen Pistner, president of Minneapolis' Dayton- Hudson department store chain and a retailing wizard, was brought in to turn Montgomery Ward around. He hired Brennan, then chief executive of the Sav-A- Stop outlets in Jacksonville, to help him in the task...
Meanwhile, morale at Apple's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters has been sagging. In recent months several executives have sold part or all of their company stock, and some senior managers and engineers have resigned. Stephen Wozniak, who co-founded the company in 1976 with Chairman Steven Jobs, has left his day-to-day duties to start a new company. Since February the company's stock has plummeted by one-third to close last week at 20 1/4. That has generated talk in the industry that Apple will become the target of a takeover attempt or merger bid, possibly...
...Chief thought it was all right," noted Robert Dole. Most major weapons systems, like the B-1B bomber, are too far into production to be cut significantly. "They have basically got the buildup already structured and will be able to carry on most of the existing programs," says Stephen Daggett of the Center for Defense Information, a liberal Washington group. Most likely to face elimination are those on the verge of making the transition from development to production. Among them: the Sergeant York battlefield air defense gun (DIVAD) and the advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM), both...
Experimental Theater Coordiantor Stephen W. Gutwilling '86 said that both the play and fund commemorate "a young girl, a young artist and her development and her personal expression through the creative arts...