Word: ward
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Joseph Williams, an employee of the Bank of America, invents the first all- purpose credit card in 1956. Several years later at the same bank, Dee Ward Hock devises the computer system that processes charges so credit cards can be used everywhere. What a perfect name for the father of the modern Visa card -- Hock...
...here are Burns and co-writer Geoffrey C. Ward, in the elegiac introduction to the series (as well as to the hefty companion book being issued simultaneously by Knopf): "At its heart lie mythic contradictions: a pastoral game, born in crowded cities; an exhilarating democratic sport that tolerates cheating and has excluded as many as it has included; a profoundly conservative game that often manages to be years ahead of its time. It is an American odyssey that links sons and daughters to fathers and grandfathers. And it reflects a host of age-old American tensions: between workers and owners...
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, Jeannine Laverty, Ellin Martens, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...been infected with the mysterious Brazilian Sabia virus. Soon after he got back to Yale, he was running a fever that reached 103F. An experimental antiviral drug eventually stopped the illness, but the man had exposed five people, including two children, before being confined to a hospital isolation ward, and another 75 or so health-care workers after that. All of them are under observation. While the patient slowly recovered last week, Yale officials had to decide whether he would be disciplined for breaking lab rules. They also suspended all research on live Sabia virus and called in the federal...
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, Jeannine Laverty, Ellin Martens, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...