Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memory is short and every morning promises a brand new life. Though separated by a continent, he remains his father's son, a princeling of deception: "I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others." Hence he adopts a name, Jack, that he feels suits him better than his real one. An indolent student, he routinely alters his report cards, displaying what he could have done instead of what he did not do. After re- establishing contact with his brother, a student at Princeton, he sees a scholarship at an Eastern prep school as his avenue...
...Holly Farms' stockholders, Tyson offered a spicier bid of $1.15 billion last week, contingent on the cancellation of the ConAgra agreement. In response, the Holly Farms board of directors said that unless ConAgra comes up with a better offer before a special stockholders meeting in late February, it will recommend the Tyson offer to its shareholders. Then the poultry prince will really have something to crow about...
...seem to have got better at doing interviews than at the beginning...
...Administration might have begun better if Bush or his chief of staff, John Sununu, had written a tighter script. A series of small but telling snafus sent the White House scrambling. The day after Bush telephoned a cheer to right-to-life advocates massed nearby on the Ellipse, the New York Times reported that Louis Sullivan, the nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, had privately told some Congressmen that he still believes in a woman's right to an abortion. Sullivan, who had sent mixed signals on abortion prior to his nomination in December, was summoned to Sununu...
...Muttering among camera operators, early morning on the South Lawn, waiting for some sign of life in the Bush White House: "Where are all those kids and dogs? Get 'em out here. We gotta have some action." Warning: if kids are used to get a President elected, he'd better keep them around for slow news days. Suggestion: an "urchin mobile," first discovered in China by Richard Nixon in 1972, a van that carries cute kids from camera position to camera position with changes of sweaters, hair ribbons and jump ropes inside...