Word: ward
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...rare event for South America, where today elected governments rule in only two of eleven nations, Venezuela and Colombia. Under the gaze of soldiers posted to ward off violence, 1.6 million Ecuadorians went to the polls last week for the first time in eleven years to select the leaders of their small (pop. 7.5 million) Andean country. Their choice for President: Jaime Roldós Aguilera, 38, a mild-mannered populist lawyer who won by a smashing 2-to-l ratio, despite a strong right-wing effort on behalf of his conservative opponent, former Quito Mayor Sixto...
Goals: Harvard--Mike Faught 3. Gordie Nelson 3 Pete Predun 3. Mike Ward 2. Bill Forbush 1. Jamie Egasti 1. UMass--Brooks Sweet 3. Harry Confort 3. Norm Smith 3. Dave Martin 2. Ed Murray 2. Mike Lewis 1. Toby Rice 1. Lee Vosburgh 1. Assist. Harvard--Norman Forbush 3. Faught 1 Nelson a. Egesti 1. Ward 1. UMass--Sweet 5 Smith 1. Vosburgh 1. Peter Schmitz...
Leading scorer Mike Faught (43 goals, 6 assists) led the Crimson barrage with a five-goal afternoon, while co-attackmen Mike Ward (16 g, 4 a) and Norm Forbush (13 g, 35 a) added three goals and two assists and one goal and five assists, respectively...
Wombles. Elderly white police volunteers who patrol urban areas to ward off terrs. Usually they are armed only with batons, but for the election an exception was made: some wombles were given gats...
Employees in a company might have reason to cheer when their chairman gets large rewards. Says Dudley V.I. Darling, a top executive recruiter with Ward Howell Associates: "The pay scales of people from lower middle managers up through officers are usually pegged to the salary that the chief collects." Middle managers are paid best in industries that compensate their top managers the most: cosmetics, autos, electronics, data processing, entertainment Such industries tend to be highly profitable and fast growing, and they give relatively more to employees and less in dividends to shareholders than do companies in older, slower-moving...