Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...modestly furnished living room of a Gdansk apartment, the little man with a flowing reddish-brown mustache chain-smokes Polish cigarettes as he chats with a group of visitors. His slender, brunette wife is in the kitchen preparing Sunday dinner as his six children, ranging in age from eleven years to four months, scamper about the flat. At one moment he glances briefly at a flickering TV screen, chuckles as Laurel and Hardy fall out of bed, then resumes his conversation. Six months ago, Lech...
DIED. Harland Sanders, 90, the goateed "colonel" who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food chain, which now has 6,000 outlets in 48 countries; of pneumonia; in Louisville. Sanders ran a popular restaurant in rural Corbin, Ky., for 27 years before setting out in 1956 in his trademark white suits and black string ties to sell franchised eateries serving chicken parts laced with a secret blend of herbs and spices and pressure-cooked for 12 min. In 1964 he sold the business for $2 million to Nashville Businessmen Jack Massey and John Y. Brown Jr., now Kentucky...
...more to buy but which last much longer. Some experts say that this is caused by the American shift to a more European style of living and a desire to own fewer, but better built, things. Says George Core, a vice president of Rike's, a department-store chain in the Dayton area: "The customer is value-conscious and will buy items like microwave ovens, even though the gift is expensive. Warm sweaters and winter coats are good this season, and customers are looking beyond the Christmas holidays to items that will be needed in the months ahead...
Traffic on Hawaiian Air Lines and Aloha Airlines, which carry sightseers between the islands, is down 10% this year. The two carriers have launched sweepstakes with prizes like new cars to lure local residents into seats vacated by tourists. Inter-Island Resorts, the oldest hotel chain in Hawaii, lost $1.25 million in the third quarter, compared with a profit of $769,000 during the same period last year. On the island of Maui, which had been developing rapidly, business is off 3.4%. The hotel occupancy rate in October was only...
Perhaps the most severe reservation held by Harvard is the possibility of a chain reaction. If District 65 is victorious, its success may trigger other Harvard clerical and technical employees to start a unionizing drive of their own. Such a campaign could result in a bargaining unit seven to eight times larger than the University's biggest union--the Harvard University Employees Representatives Association, which has only 550 members...