Word: stewarding
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...lying in a London hospital with tuberculosis. That didn't stop him from proposing to Sonia Brownell, a shapely, high-spirited literary editor 15 years his junior. They were married in his hospital room. There he died three months later, aged 46. Brownell was a devoted if inept steward of his legacy. As biographer Spurling notes, Brownell redeemed herself with a lawsuit that won control of Orwell's royalties for son Richard, who grew up in Scotland, where he still lives, and became a dealer in farm equipment. Brownell also enforced Orwell's request for no biographies, though after...
Taking over the Form has made him “a steward and a caretaker” of the racing tradition, he says. “It’s been a great goal to have a good, honest, sophisticated, accurate publication for people who love the game...
...many of their more substantive complaints. Workers cite University employment policies, which leave them without pay or unemployment insurance between school years. “The number one issue that we deal with today is the 3 month layoff during the summer,” says Ed Childs, chief steward for the Hotel Employees, Restaurant Employees (HERE) union. “During good times we can find some jobs. This is a bad time...
...Democrats, of course, are going ballistic over Bush's budget imbalance, blaming his tax cuts ($1.3 trillion in 2001, at least another $674 billion in his new plan) and excoriating him as a reckless steward of the economy. They point out, accurately, that Bush's projected deficits don't even taken into account the cost of a war with Iraq (another $50-200 billion), or his promise to reform Social Security (estimated cost: $1 trillion). Not that the Democrats have a plan of their own to stem the flow of red ink, which would require spending cuts few are willing...
...feels they focused in on him because he was a Black cook." James Burke, Union shop steward for the Freshman Union's food service workers, said yesterday He added that Wright's union has urged him to file discrimination and defamation charges with the NLRB...