Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oliver Stone sprang up in bed and found fear staining his sheets. A dream had startled him awake. He was 16 years out of Viet Nam, but in the dream, "they had shipped me back. Somehow they found me at the age of 38 and sent me back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror." That was two years ago. Now Stone, who earned a Bronze Star and a MASH unit's worth of physical and emotional wounds in the jungles of Viet Nam, has transformed his war experience -- the bad dream he lived through for 15 months...
...that Viet Nam was different. All the old givens -- beau geste, military master plans, unswerving belief in the officer class -- were fatally irrelevant to a guerrilla war. Forget the World War II narrative line of tanks and tactics, which moved with the ponderous sweep of a Golden Age Hollywood plot. Viet Nam, set in jungles without beginning or end, was a flash of episodic, aleatory explosions; it was modernism brought to war. And a new kind of war demanded a new look at the war-movie genre. Platoon fills the bill. It is a huge black slab of remembrance, chiseled...
...part, Lydia Whitefield of AT&T emphasized that the latest wave of transfers was a "precautionary move." The company has commissioned its own study, which will explore the effects of clean-room operations not only on expectant women but on men and on women of childbearing age who are not pregnant. Meanwhile, all those employees may seek transfers out of the clean room...
Meanwhile, in far-off Cleveland, a quarterback for the ages was coming of age. Denver's John Elway, 26, a Stanford baseball and football phenom prized above Miami's Dan Marino in the great quarterback draft of 1983, gathered the Broncos in their own end zone with less than six minutes and more than 98 yds. to go. Just to tie, they needed a touchdown. "We've got these guys right where we want them," drawled Denver Guard Keith Bishop, a Texan, but everyone else was looking at Elway. "We have a long...
Some 65% of women of childbearing age are now in the American work force (see chart), and 90% of them have had or will have children during their careers. Yet only about two-thirds are entitled, under state law or company policy, to pregnancy leaves that guarantee reasonable job security. Larger companies are usually better able to accommodate such leaves than are smaller ones. Among FORTUNE 500 companies, 81% offer job-protected pregnancy leaves to female employees...