Word: ward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provincial capital of Cabanatuan, rescue workers used handkerchiefs to ward off the stench of decaying bodies as they worked in the sweltering heat to peel away the remains of a six-story school building. "It happened so fast," said Abelaida Belino, a school principal who was in her office when the quake hit. "I had to stumble my way out. But I'm very lucky. I feel like I've been given a new life...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...privately held Montgomery Ward (1989 sales: $5 billion), chairman Bernard Brennan sees the new consumer caution in the declining sales of such big- ticket items as appliances and furniture, usually two of his company's strongest categories. Says he: "People are beginning to worry. They are reading more today about factory layoffs and companies failing because of the debt restructuring of the '80s. There's a great deal of unrest out there about job security and even levels...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...argument for aid is simple: if the West wants Gorbachev to continue steering the U.S.S.R. toward peace and democracy, then it must help him ward off collapse of the Soviet economy, since that is by far the greatest threat to his remaining in power. So far, however, this has convinced only Kohl, who has pledged $3 billion of West German loans to the Soviet Union and is trying to talk his NATO allies into ponying up an additional $15 billion or so. Colleagues suspect Kohl's real motive is to buy Moscow's consent to German unification...