Word: baye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hmmmm. Does this pattern sound familiar? It's merely the road to academic success followed by the wise liberal arts student at Harvard. No need to resort to anything so crude as sleeping with your section leader or depositing large checks in a numbered account at Bay Banks. Sidle up to your most prominents professors and tell them what they want to hear. If you have any wits at all, hitching your wagon to enough academic engines can lead to a summer job, fellowships, and best of all, hot reccomendations for the grad school or job of your choice...
...U.S.S. Missouri, "Mighty Mo," was returning from retirement. In emotional ceremonies on a sun-drenched day in San Francisco Bay, the ship was "brought alive" by her crew of 1,600 before an audience of 12,000 dignitaries and guests. The mere mention of the ship summons echoes from the remembered past. On her bleached teak decks, Supreme Allied Commander General Douglas MacArthur had accepted the unconditional surrender of the Japanese from Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu...
...brass plaque embedded in the wood of what is now known as the surrender deck memorializes that moment in Tokyo Bay: 0908, Sept. 2, 1945. V-J day. The conclusion of World War II. "Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always," MacArthur told Americans huddled around radios in darkness half a world away...
...Missouri cruised at eleven stately knots past those concrete bunkers into the bay for recommissioning ceremonies, she was greeted not only by tugs spurting festive plumes of water but by half a dozen boats of the "Peace Navy." The small flotilla was protesting the home-porting of the Missouri with its nuclear missiles along San Francisco's waterfront. Mike Kennedy, on the other hand, thinks of the Missouri as a force for peace. "We'd prefer never to fire a shot in anger," he says...
...Department of Defense has done its part to fuel Massachusetts' revival. Bay State companies write the software programs for today's so-called smart weapons and build the hardware to run them. The economic forecasting firm Data Resources estimates that 16% of the state's growth from 1981 to 1988 will be the result of Pentagon spending. Massachusetts, the state usually described as the most liberal in the nation, currently ranks fourth among all states in the amount it receives in defense contracts: some $7.7 billion. In 1985 alone, $2.3 billion worth of defense-related business went to Raytheon, based...