Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Corey earned his doctorate there in 1950 at age 22. He taught at the University of Illinois from 1951 to 1959 and became a full professor of chemistry in 1956 at the age...
...swimsuit issue arena are women. Beach pictorials are about the most exposure women get in any single issue of magazines such as Sports Illustrated. The imbalance suggests that women are most newsworthy when they are passive sex symbols. This is a warped idea in an age when the United States' brightest Olympic star was not a man, but sprinter Florence Griffith-Joyner...
National service -- the image of a vast civilian army of fresh-faced young people embarking on a crusade of good works -- has always held romantic appeal for adults safely beyond draft age. Utopian visionary Edward Bellamy originally broached the notion more than a century ago. Philosopher William James alluded to it in his famous 1910 essay, "The Moral Equivalent of War." Franklin Roosevelt in 1943 spoke of a postwar America where young adults would make a "year's contribution of service to the Government." At the height of the Viet Nam buildup, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara proposed compulsory national service...
...Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or ESOP, has rapidly come of age. Ten million U.S. workers, about one-fourth of all corporate employees, are enrolled in an ESOP, up from 3 million only a decade ago. More than 9,800 companies in the U.S. offer such programs, including 1,500 in which employees own the majority of the stock. By giving workers a stake in the company's success, enthusiasts say, the programs boost morale and productivity. But the popularity of ESOPs, which were initially created in the 1950s, has been fueled in the 1980s by an unintended and somewhat controversial...
Well, they're entitled, because they do. Employee stock-ownership plans, or ESOPs, have rapidly come of age as morale-boosting incentives and takeover tools...