Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opportunities have splintered the nonwhite population. The brightest and most ambitious have rapidly risen, leaving the underclass farther and farther behind?and more and more angry. While the number of blacks earning more than $10,000 is expanding and the number earning $5,500 to $10,000 is shrinking, almost a third of all black families are still below the poverty line, defined as $5,500 for an urban family of four (only 8.9% of white families are below the line). Says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman: "The awareness that many blacks have been successful means that the underclass is more...
...funds. "Nothing happened for a year and three-quarters," he recalled. "I worked terribly hard, saw everybody, but nothing happened. Then AFTRA [American Federation of Television and Radio Artists] came in, and after that the business built very rapidly." Heimann became known as one of Wall Street's brightest young comers and began earning enough to support his wife and two children in lavish style on Manhattan's East Side...
...quite yet. The six-nation International Cricket Conference (ICC)* was still battling to ward off Communications Tycoon Kerry Packer, 39, who lured away the game's brightest lights with promises of filthy lucre. That is a rare commodity in cricket, where even playing for England, a superstar can aspire to no more than $35,000 a year and a run-of-the-mill professional only $6,600 a season. Packer offered far better salaries and planned a televised international all-star series matching "the rest of the world" against a formidable Australian side...
...season when college and university commencement speakers exhort the capped and gowned to go forth and confront the world. A sampling of what 14 of the best, the brightest and the most beautiful in the class of 77 see ahead for themselves...
...ladies are loyal to him, at least de hitching post facto; not one has an unkind word to say about David. That goes for some of his old Angries pals. Says Bernard Levin, one of the toughest and brightest of British journalists and a star of the old TW3: "David not only has genuine ability but also human qualities of kindness, generosity, good nature and sympathy." Frost's self-judgment is more modest: "The aim of everything I do is to leave the audience a little more alert, a little more aware, a little more alive." Richard Nixon must feel...