Word: ed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...February as head of Random House's esteemed Pantheon division, where profit had always been secondary to literary eclat, company officials hastened to portray him as fiscally incompetent. In April, as if to underscore the insult, Pantheon named a new executive editor, Erroll McDonald, 36, who in an op-ed column for the New York Times had scorned a pro-Schiffrin protest rally organized by writers and editors...
...Boycott Folgers coffee. What it brews is misery and death." Narrated by actor Ed Asner, that TV attack ad has sparked a battle between a San Francisco-based peace group called Neighbor to Neighbor and corporate giant Procter & Gamble, whose Folgers brand is the top-selling U.S. coffee. The 30- sec. spot, which aired earlier this month on CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston, accuses Procter & Gamble of prolonging the ten-year civil war in El Salvador by buying Salvadoran coffee beans, the country's leading export, and thereby supporting the right-wing government of President Alfredo Cristiani...
...many voters, Dinkins had seemed a perfect antidote to twelve years of confrontations from the irrepressible Ed Koch, who appealed to working-class whites by goading blacks. Low-key and conciliatory, Dinkins prefers quiet back-room negotiations to forceful public speeches. But even in such talks, Dinkins and his aides have blundered. When the mayor dispatched his most trusted assistant, Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch, to mediate the Korean boycott, Lynch angered the demonstrators by walking into one of the stores without first talking with them. After that bumpy start, however, Dinkins' men managed to keep both sides talking...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...
...what dreams are made of--The Goal. Who can forget Ed Krayer's backhander slithering by Minnesota goalie Robb Stauber in overtime last year to clinch the men's hockey team's national championship...