Word: yves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Mackin and Ed Bradley, of CBS, went on the air with their valedictions to the Bayh campaign, the producers told the workers who were dismantling the convention equipment to stop making noise. Yves Alexis, an employee of the hotel who was folding a table, glowered back in their direction, but stopped his work...
...Divinity School, saying, "If God had intended me to stay on, He wouldn't have had President Bok ask me to retire." In his search for Stendhal's successor, Bok is reported to be considering Robert Moses, Deane Lord, Jesus Alou, Isaiah Robertson, Frank Church, Adam Clayton Powell and Yves Montand...
...Jacques-Yves Cousteau. His tender kindness toward all living things, coupled with his contemptuous disdain for the ravenous human animal, puts him on a plateau few people can reach...
When he took over as chairman of the government-owned Air Canada in 1968, Yves Pratte was a highly respected lawyer in Quebec and a close friend of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Last week Pratte was a fallen man, his reputation tainted by scandal and charges of ineptitude. In a bitter letter of resignation, he left no doubt that even Trudeau wanted...
...profit of $6.1 million in 1973, lost $9.2 million last year. Pratte could explain the losses as at least partly due to the rise in fuel costs. But last April, Elmer MacKay, a Tory Member of Parliament, revealed that one of Pratte's appointees, Marketing Vice President Yves Menard, had authorized a curious payment of $100,000 as a "consultant's fee" to one of Montreal's top travel agents. The fact that Menard had resigned under pressure two months earlier did not prevent a scandal from growing, so the Canadian government asked Ontario Court of Appeal...