Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henikoff pulled out a 6-2, 7-6 victory against Ericka Winston of Miami University to qualify for the team...
...solid waste is now dumped into 6,000 landfills. Their number is shrinking fast: in the past five years, 3,000 dumps have been closed; by 1993 some 2,000 more will be filled to the brim and shut. "We have a real capacity crunch coming up," said J. Winston Porter, an assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. In West Germany 35,000 to 50,000 landfill sites have been declared potentially dangerous because they may threaten vital groundwater supplies...
Mere maintenance of the existing security system would be insufficient--it must be improved. With the above measures, we would not have to provide so much security for ourselves, as the administration would like us to. Apparently the administration fancies Winston Churchill's precept, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." But with vigilance comes fear, a sentiment with which Harvard students should not have to contend. Our security is worth far more than the administration seems to value...
...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...