Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assassination attempt by three Bulgarians: two former employees at the Rome embassy and Sergei Ivanov Antonov, onetime Rome manager of the Bulgarian airline, who is now being held in a Rome jail pending the outcome of the investigation. Was Antonov involved? newsmen asked, as Agca climbed into a police van. "I knew Sergei," he replied. "He was my accomplice...
...February, Lorillard introduced Satin, a cigarette with a satin-paper filter tip. Market research indicated that women wanted a product that symbolized luxurious relaxation. Ted van de Kamp, a director with MCA Advertising, says studies showed women in the 1980s are looking for a cigarette that will let them "indulge themselves." Philip Morris put Virginia Slims on the market in 1968 with an image of the striving, independent woman and the slogan "You've come a long way, baby." Its share...
...principal reporting for the story was done by New York Correspondent Bruce van Voorst, who spent five weeks talking with senior executives at IBM's headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., visiting two of the company's major manufacturing centers, and surveying the views of industry consultants and Wall Street analysts. Van Voorst faced several challenges on the assignment, not all of them journalistic. For one thing, he says, "IBM is a large and swiftly moving target. A list I made of two weeks of its activities would be many another company's annual report." Another problem...
...sales: $462 million), which makes large computers; Joe M. Henson, president of Prime Computer (1982 sales: $436 million), a major producer of minicomputers; and David Martin, president of National Advanced Systems, the computer unit of National Semiconductor. Former employees usually speak highly of Big Blue. Says Fla-vil Van Dyke, president of Genigraphics, a computer-graphics firm: "I still look back fondly at IBM and try to run my company by IBM standards...
...cutting back. The cold. The stove. The wood. The goddamn wood." John Updike's The City follows Computer Salesman Bob Carson's readjustment after an appendectomy: he was "trying to take again into himself the miracle of the world, programming himself." The aged farmer of William F. Van Wert's poetic Putting & Gardening discovers peace without change. On a Florida golf course his son observes him "on hands and knees, lovingly replacing my divot on . . . the only garden that is left for him." Like most of the ten women writers represented, Leigh Buchanan Bienen examines the everyday...