Teach, write and live quality: Roderick Munro, Quality Magazine's 2006...

Quality;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR * 2006 Roderick Munro has given more than 190 professional presentations...ASQ), he became an ASQ fellow. Today, Munro is a business improvement coach and president...and plant auditing for TS 16949: 2002. Munro tries to incorporate quality in all aspects...

HEART & SOLE; FOR DON MUNRO, KEEPING THE DOMESTIC SHOE INDUSTRY ALIVE IS...

Footwear News;  December 6, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Barbara Schneider-Levy The only thing Munro & Co. Chairman and CEO Don Munro likes to talk about more than his business is...company's production overseas in the early 1990s, Munro remains deeply committed to his employees, keeping...

Alice Munro at ease as voice of human spirit

Post-Tribune (IN);  April 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ......SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION (PHOTO) Alice Munro, one of the world's most highly praised...storytelling. Often compared to Anton Chekhov, Munro has attained near-canonical status as a...documenter of the human spirit. The 71-year-old Munro is increasingly in favor with readers...

Documenter of the human spirit: Alice Munro discusses her life and work

AP Worldstream;  April 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: NEW YORK Alice Munro, one of the world's most highly praised...storytelling. Often compared to Anton Chekhov, Munro has attained near-canonical status as a...documenter of the human spirit. The 71-year-old Munro is increasingly in favor with readers...

Appreciations of Alice Munro

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Michael Cunningham, novelist Alice Munro tells the large stories of people whose...search for a white whale. In so doing, Munro, maybe more than any other writer today...technique-y thing meant to remake literature. Munro is not Joyce, she is not David Foster Wallace...

Arts: If Tim Roth hadn't bailed out... ... Scottish writer Rona Munro...

The Independent on Sunday;  January 26, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Maybe you haven't heard of Rona Munro. She's a jack of all trades and a master...The MsFits. It's in this latter role that Munro, now 43, admits she may not have excelled...about family than about prisons," says Munro. She'd spent time in prisons when researching...

Half fact, half fiction and all true ; FICTION ++ The View From Castle...

The Independent on Sunday;  November 12, 2006 ;     595 words ...How to talk critically about Alice Munro now that the terms of the debate are so...These facts are lent sharper focus by Munro's recent talk of retirement; her 13th collection...This book tells the episodic history of Munro's family, from pioneer ancestors who left...

Munro has 65% Osage stake. (Munro and Co.; Osage Footwear Inc.)

Footwear News;  September 2, 1991 ;     162 words ...Munro has 65% Osage stake WASHINGTON (FNS) - Munro & Co. Inc., Hot Springs, Ark., has exercised its option...the Securities and Exchange Commission Aug. 19 show that Munro & Co. paid $130,000 for the stock. Munro & Co., which...

MUNRO IS RETIRING WITH A BIPARTISAN VOTE OF THANKS.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Secretary of State Ralph Munro, a colorful and outspoken presence in...when his fifth term expires next year. Munro, 55 ((age)), is the only Republican among...Democratic Gov. Gary Locke. Ron Dotzauer, who Munro narrowly defeated in 1980 to win the...

Munro doctrine Author sets new agenda for herself with fictionalized...

Rocky Mountain News;  November 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ......from Castle Rock, the transcendent Alice Munro explores the, if not exactly new for her...however, the landscape is the land of Munro's Scottish ancestors who came to Canada...truthful as our notion of the past can be," Munro writes in her forward. Munro lived in Scotland...

Munro doctrine Author sets new agenda for herself with fictionalized...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  November 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ......from Castle Rock, the transcendent Alice Munro explores the, if not exactly new for her...however, the landscape is the land of Munro's Scottish ancestors who came to Canada...truthful as our notion of the past can be, Munro writes in her forward. Munro lived in Scotland...

Munro's fearless fullness

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 27, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Love of a Good Woman Stories. By Alice Munro. Knopf. $24. The love of a good woman depends...not to ask certain questions, as Alice Munro demonstrates in her new collection of short...The love of readers for great writers, Munro among them, depends entirely on the writer...

The edge of sadness The Chekov of Canada, ALice Munro writes classic...

The Boston Globe;  November 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ...THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN Stories By Alice Munro. Knopf. 339 pp. $24. Gail Caldwell is the chief book critic of the Globe. Alice Munro is so revered for her stories -- her perfect...rough-hewn lay of the land may partly explain Munro's classically desultory point of view...

Lessons for start-up business owners: it's not every day that you get to...

NZ Business;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......by any stretch of the imagination. James Munro has a small office in Superbank's modest...Superbank is not your traditional bank, and Munro doesn't have a conventional banking background...very effective. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Munro on starting-up Some might say that Superbank...

Munro's stories are a world all their own

The Boston Globe;  September 18, 1994 ;     700+ words ...OPEN SECRETS By Alice Munro. Knopf. 294 pp. $23. Gail Caldwell is book editor of the Globe. Mention Alice Munro in a roomful of fiction lovers, and the...a whole generation in the short story, Munro has pitched her tent over such odd and...