Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it comes to business, Church knows what he is doing. He has been writing about the economy for 23 years. While working as a copy boy at the New York Times, he learned that the Wall Street Journal was hiring people without extensive economics backgrounds, and he applied for a job. Says Church: "To my surprise, I was hired, and to my even greater surprise, I found that I was actually interested in business." After 14 years at the Journal, he joined TIME in 1969, and has since been writing and editing in our Business section...
...Burt feels he's a "prisoner of his big-screen, good-ole-boy image?" Doesn't he realize we love it? If I were Burt, I wouldn't mess with a sure thing...
Environmentalists applaud Brown's plan for its "symbolic effect." Political foes find little to cheer about. Said former Los Angeles Police Chief Edward Davis, who is seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination: "When I was a small boy, I liked to play with toys too. But using windmills is like harnessing fleas when you have an elephant like nuclear energy available." Retorted Brown: "When Fulton invented the steamboat, people laughed. But people who have studied energy alternatives aren't laughing. They know that walnut shells actually work...
...distance between teacher and student began to disappear, and students felt they had a license to behave any way they wanted," says Geraldine Han, who has taught social studies in New York City for 17 years. Han is recuperating from an attack last September, when a 15-year-old boy karate-kicked her in the spine...
...assailant was expelled. Han's assailant was merely transferred to another school. A student in a Boston high school who attacked a teacher with a pair of scissors was subsequently released by the juvenile court and returned to the same school. The judge, it seems, felt that the boy had extenuating emotional problems stemming from a scar on his face. And in a cause celebre in Providence, a teacher attempting to restrain a sixth-grade student from punching and choking a classmate whacked the offender on the leg with a blackboard pointer. The school administration took action-against...