Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Microsoft's Bill Gates forged breakthroughs in semiconductors, software and personal computers. Even in lower-tech fields, such risk takers as Domino's Pizza Founder Tom Monaghan demonstrated an impressive ability to create new products and services that no dominant corporation could match. "This has been a great age to be living in if you're an entrepreneur," exclaims Alfred Rappaport, a Northwestern University business professor who started his own consulting group in Chicago...
...make a choice about your commitment to the war, and not pretend it was just something happening in Washington." Baby-boom politicians should continue to be questioned about Viet Nam, and deserve the consequences if it turns out that their primary response to the anguish of the age was self-absorbed apathy...
...done this as much through the strength of a very forthright -- some say autocratic -- character as through good medicine. "Her spirit is not to be complacent," says Dr. Samuel Klagsbrun, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University who has known Dame Cicely for more than two decades. "Even at this age she stirs the pot and challenges people...
...historian and formerly a leading figure in Solidarity. "They are more sophisticated politically but less experienced. Their demands are more ambitious, but they are also perhaps more cynical. Most especially, they are deeply aware of human rights." In addition, they are the first generation of protesters to come of age when a Soviet leader supports at least a limited degree of reform instead of schemes to crush...
Feelings about the draft continued to run high after it was abolished. As a freshman Congressman in 1977, Quayle voted to cut off funds for President Jimmy Carter's proposed program to grant amnesty to Viet Nam draft dodgers. Yet Wheeler speculates that Quayle, like others his age, may suffer from a vague sense of shame. "Most men who did not go to Viet Nam feel a twinge of guilt," says Wheeler, adding, "It's unnecessary emotional freight." Wheeler believes Quayle should speak out about the fears and conflicted feelings that so many young men experienced during the war. Such...