Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that's not enough to entice y'all away from the cold and snow of Cambridge, maybe this is: The drinking age is 18. Yes, that's right, 18. In the good ole tradition of states' rights, Louisiana has kept the age at which one can consume alcoholic beverages a good young 18. But that age is about to rise, so hurry down...
...stops you from flying down South for Mardi Gras, don't despair. There's plenty to do over Spring Break. The temperature will be in the 70s or 80s, and the azaleas will be in their most exquisite phases of pink, red and white brilliance. And, yes, the drinking age will still...
...serious as such setbacks are, they are rarely insuperable. A closing can ultimately prove beneficial if it spurs a town to diversify its economy and attract space-age industries to replace traditional ones. Brockport officials, for example, hope to lure a cluster of high-tech companies. As a drawing card, they point out that Rochester, with its universities and scientific companies like Eastman Kodak, is only 18 miles to the east of Brockport. As soon as Black & Decker finishes packing up its equipment, the village will be able to offer a large, modern industrial plant to interested companies, saving them...
Control Data got into trouble by developing "corpocracy," or corporate bloat, at a relatively early age. William Norris, a former Sperry Rand general manager who started the company in 1957, had managed by the early 1960s -- with a staff of only a few thousand employees -- to take the industry lead in building high-speed computers for scientists and engineers. But as the company grew and prospered during the 1970s, the founder's interests began to wander toward wide-ranging and public-spirited ventures that diverted money and managerial attention. The company built factories in low-income regions like Appalachia, tried...
...progressive in its benefits, including day care and family counseling. The remaining employees gamely cheered one another by wearing buttons that read IT'S O.K. TO SMILE. One of the thousands who left their jobs was Norris, who gave up the chairman's post in January 1986 at age 74 to let his successor Robert Price have a freer hand in dismantling the founder's overgrown dream...