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...conference attracted a few mayors who have made political history, including Norm Rice of Seattle and John Daniels of New Haven, both the first Black mayors of their respective cities, and Karen Vialle of Tacoma, Wash., and Martha Wood of Winston-Salem, N.C., both the first female mayors of their cities...
...last week's North Carolina case, a former teller at a Winston-Salem credit union sought to use a Reconstruction-era statute to make her case of racial harassment against her former employer. Among other things, she claimed that she had been asked to do menial tasks because she was black. Speaking for the majority, Kennedy said the statute prohibited "the refusal to enter into a contract" based on race, but not discrimination involving "postformation conduct" under a contract. Sniped dissenting Justice William Brennan: "What the court declines to snatch away with one hand, it takes with the other...
...afford to be generous in victory. Though he may have to spin off some $6 billion worth of RJR food brands to reduce the leveraged company's swollen debt, he talked of shifting RJR headquarters from Atlanta, where Johnson moved it last year, back to its traditional home in Winston-Salem, N.C. Kravis said he will install retired RJR chairman J. Paul Sticht, 71, in the top job again for several months to smooth the transition...
...bars, when it merged with Nabisco in 1981. Four years later, as Nabisco's president, Johnson sold out to RJR Reynolds for $4.9 billion and soon became president of the merged company. After adding the title of chief executive officer in 1987, he swiftly moved RJR Nabisco headquarters from Winston-Salem to Atlanta, sold the Heublein liquor business and slashed the corporate staff from 1,000 to 400. The dapper Johnson, a friend of such sports figures as hockey star Bobby Orr and broadcaster Frank Gifford, is described as a "charmer" by one associate. Another warned that when the boss...
...vice president had devoted much of his debate time to depicting Dukakis as a liberal. "We're going to keep on doing it," Bush said as he left Winston-Salem, N.C., for a round of campaigning...