Word: sterne
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...ROGER B. STERN -- Detroit...
Some see imagination; others see ego. Either way, Andrew Stern's vision for a more aggressive labor movement persuaded his union, the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers, together representing 4.6 million workers, to split from the AFL-CIO. TIME's Joseph R. Szczesny asks the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) chief to explain the bitter divorce...
...Tall, slim and stern-faced, Tiazy seeks out Jim Peter, the chairman of the local Crime Prevention Committee, a grassroots initiative of ramsi. "We work very closely with the community," says Tiazy, who spends time in the area's outer islands educating people about ways to head off crime. "In the past we used informers to get information. Now we rely on these bodies." As the local explosives expert, Tiazy is also responsible for dealing with the torpedoes and other old ordnance that islanders still occasionally stumble upon 60 years after the end of World War II in the Pacific...
...Somehow, I?m not amazed that Howard Stern is on your list...
What is it exactly that we see in Grant Wood's stern old farmer and the woman at his side with her strange, sidelong glance? Is this an image of enduring Midwestern probity or a satire of small-town small-mindedness? Wood, who recruited his 30-year-old sister and his 62-year-old dentist to pose for him, preferred to insist that his interest was just painterly. This book traces the impact and changing meaning of the iconic image through its 75-year history...