Word: approach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kemp resents being called a mudslinger. "Hey, who has been made more fun of economically than Jack Kemp?", he indignantly retorts. "Gollee, if this is mudslinging, then it's the end of the two-party system." He felt compelled to take a sharper approach in his advertising because his positive style had left him stalled, but he still finds it hard to be negative in person. "We've tried to get him to use it in his speeches," sighed his friend and fellow conservative, Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire. "He won't." Indeed, addressing the New Hampshire legislature...
...Keith Light. Light, a freshman proctor, has invigorated the freshman intramural program in the past two years since he took over the program, adding new life to the traditionally lackluster league. Light has used a many-pronged approach to inject excitement, enthusiasm and exercise into the frosh program...
...eliminated nearly 30,000 salaried employees, or about 4% of its work force, and has begun closing down operations at 16 plants. But it has also invested $50 billion to build eight new plants and modernize 19 others. Says GM President Robert Stempel, 54: "That's the long- term approach. Roger could have forced us to concentrate on short-term earnings, but he didn...
Consider, as Green must, the realities of the other nine months. Dropout rates approach 90% in some ghetto schools and -- depending on who is counting -- 30% to 55% citywide. A surfeit of aging buildings crumble in disrepair. Desks occasionally spill out of overcrowded classrooms into hallways prowled by student hoodlums who "have been bringing weapons to school for years," says one principal. An overpowerful custodian's union, whose president was killed last year in what police described as a gangland-style rubout, dictates the hours schools will be open. Tenured high school principals cannot be fired without interminable hearings. Under...
...begun preparing a new generation of satellites whose sensors will be aimed not at the earth but at the vast expanse beyond its atmosphere. One of the first due off the drawing board is an experimental bird called Starscan, scheduled for launch in 1991. It will approach orbiting objects and test for the radiation given off by nuclear devices. But the new satellites will have a harder time establishing the presence of space-based lasers and particle-beam weapons like those proposed as part of President Reagan's Star Wars missile defense initiative. Says John Pike, a space-technology expert...