Word: mervyn
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Life has been good to Mervyn L. and Joyce Alphonso: four healthy children, a six-bedroom house, a Mercedes in the driveway. But a few decades ago, life was much bleaker. They were both surviving day to day in Guyana, their families crowded into small cottages without indoor plumbing. Mervyn's father had died when he was 13, casting the youngster into the work force as a messenger who also attended school; Joyce studied furiously in the hopes of getting a job abroad...
...know how powerless we are,” said Mervyn W. Han ’03, who also participated in the rally. “All we can do is just yell outside, but we don’t have any voice in the decision-making process. We can scream, but it’s not heard by those in a position of authority...
...think that the [Bauer Center] is an excellent conception,” said Mervyn J. Turner, senior vice president at Merck Research Laboratories. “By funding it, we’d be providing some seed money to trigger these new areas of fundamental research in the biological sciences...
...Mervyn W. Han ’03. who is an environmental science and public policy concentrator, said he will use his $1,000 grant to “document hydroelectric development in Canada as a human rights concern...
Slumping consumer confidence and declining retail sales have already taken a job toll. At Southern University, a traditionally black school in Baton Rouge, La., retailers J.C. Penney and Mervyn's have cut their interviews by two-thirds. "The options for students are becoming more limited," says Kris Tiefenthaler, the director for college relations at Sears Roebuck. But retailers have high churn rates, so Sears--which recently announced store closings and layoffs--is sticking to plans to hire 200 new grads this year...