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Aesthetics often dictates against hyphenation. Says a Washington lawyer representing small businesses who was born Joel Rothstein and is married to a woman named Wolfson: "Rothstein-Wolfson is four syllables and 16 letters. Names get massacred enough. Wolfson becomes Wilson. Rothstein becomes Rothson. You can imagine what people would have done with the two together." But could they come up with a workable union of surnames without resorting to hyphens? "It was important for our kid's last name to be the same as ours," says the lawyer. "Otherwise, one parent gets left out." The solution: Rothstein gave...
...Joel Downer, Advocating a Better Learning Environment...
...Gorbachev's reforms and initiatives--which include pulling out of Afghanistan, signing the INF, adopting hard-line budgeting, providing more and better consumer products and importing Coca-Cola, Billy Joel and openess--are themselves symptomatic of a dilemma which looms large in Kremlin minds. The Soviets are coming to grips with the fact that they cannot economically or politically afford to keep up the arms race and their policy of expansion at the expense of domestic priorities...
...this con, excited consumers who call to claim prizes after receiving you-are-a-winner letters are asked for their credit-card numbers and card-expiration dates "as verification." The new car or microwave oven never arrives. But before long, mysterious charges begin to show up on the cards. Joel Lisker, MasterCard's vice president for security and fraud control, & estimates that thieves using such methods skimmed at least $105 million from the $120 billion in U.S. credit-card transactions last year...
...know why we won," Roger Williams Coach Joel Dearing remarked after the game. "Each game was pretty close and there wasn't much to choose from...