Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insisted on waiting in line for many of the attractions and mingled freely with the customers. "When I went to Disneyland as a kid, it was like visiting the Wizard of Oz," he says. "This time it was like getting a tour of the Emerald City from the man behind the curtain...
...showdown came at an emergency stockholders meeting demanded by De Benedetti and his allies, where more than 1,000 shareholders crowded into a carnival tent set up behind Societe Generale's elegant offices in Brussels. Despite a last-minute plea by De Benedetti, in which he argued that the 166- year-old conglomerate, best known as La Generale, needed better management, he was rebuffed...
...value is identifying kids who need help," says Ken Rustad, of the Minneapolis school district, where children who "fail" kindergarten are placed in transitional classes. Defenders of the Georgia test policy point out that the CAT is not the only tool used to determine who passes and who stays behind: the kindergarten teachers' recommendations are given equal weight. Edward F. Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale, nonetheless worries about the lasting impact of flunking a formalized test: "If a child at five is given the message that he or she is a failure, a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...only one to frustrate his ambition). Wells clearly had the right stuff, especially as a financial man, but his most emphatic advice to Roy Disney was to hire Michael Eisner, president of Paramount Pictures. In eight years as the No. 2 man at Paramount, Eisner had been the wunderkind behind a string of hits, ranging from Saturday Night Fever to Terms of Endearment...
...Chirac or Barre, he will almost certainly find himself still trailing Mitterrand in the polls. But with the gap as narrow as the 4% shown in the Le Point poll, there may be time in the two weeks before the second round to mount a credible come-from-behind campaign. If not, Mitterrand will be the first French President to serve a second term since -- who else -- Charles de Gaulle...