Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tyson still has "his 20-year-old days" (a bachelor, he proclaims his accessibility to women), Rooney considers him "a mature fighter, a very elusive boxer -- smart. He doesn't have a high school diploma, but he's on the verge of a master's." Studying the old films, Tyson likes "to look in the background and see all the people who are dead." But he also noticed the way Joe Frazier sometimes bent forward into Ali's flurries; when Marvis Frazier did the same thing, Tyson flattened Joe's son in 30 seconds. "I really believe, deep down...
...reading restaurant menus at two, got out of high school at twelve, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami at the sagacious age of 14 and graduated from Miami's law school when he was 16. But Prodigy Stephen Baccus had to molder away until the senescent age of 17 before he was able to become the youngest known person ever sworn in as a lawyer in the U.S. After he passed the bar exam this summer, his father Miami Attorney James Baccus petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a waiver of the 18-year...
...between now and 1990 there will be 12 million to 13 million jobs for some 15 million baccalaureate earners. The University of Illinois reports that only 19% of its humanities students have guaranteed jobs upon graduation, vs. 90% for business majors. Small wonder that according to U.S. Government statistics, bachelor's degrees in business have doubled from 114,865 in 1971 to 230,031 in 1984, while B.A.s in English and literature have plunged from 57,026 to 26,419. In the competition for enrollments, some schools have dropped B.A.s in subjects such as geology and music education to emphasize...
Like Lolita, The Enchanter is about a middle-aged bachelor whose passion for a blithely seductive adolescent drives him to desperate, hapless schemes to gain access to her. His obsession carries him so far as to marry the child's unappetizing mother and to put up daily with her drabness and phlegm...
...mystery was solved: the reason for a lonely stone fountain on White House ground commemorating Artist Francis Millet and Archibald Willingham Butt. Since the only other such commemoration on the grounds is the statue of Andrew Jackson, the fountain bore investigating. Archie Butt, it turns out, was a popular bachelor who served as White House military aide for both Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. Returning from a vacation in Europe with his friend Millet, he booked passage on the Titanic. Butt would have continued to elude historians had he not left three volumes of intimate correspondence of his years...