Word: brightest
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...Bloomingdale's in Manhattan, Dumas has boosted Hermes annual sales ninefold, to $460 million, since he took over in 1978. Moving aggressively into the U.S. and the Far East, he has opened 80 new shops, bringing the total to 238. Thirty more are planned. "Dumas is one of the brightest retailers in the world," says Stanley Marcus, chairman emeritus of the Neiman-Marcus stores. Marcus owns 175 Hermes silk ties, hand-screened and hand-hemmed at $95 each. "It is a status symbol," he admits. "But it is also the finest quality tie made anywhere...
...million new teachers by 1997. The need is especially acute in inner cities and rural communities, precisely the areas TFA serves. "Without programs like ! this," says New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez, "we are never going to resolve pipeline issues related to attracting the very best and brightest to our profession...
...Pohl and Bennefield are among a dozen students working at TIME this summer. For many years we have invited some of the brightest U.S. college juniors to Manhattan to learn how we put out the magazine -- and sometimes to come back full time. Managing editor Henry Muller, Stanford '68, started his career as a summer intern at our sister magazine LIFE. More recently, Time Warner has added internships for graduate students as well, to expose them to all the facets of our publishing enterprises...
...same goes for teachers, many of whom have been grouped together in interdisciplinary programs. Juniors take "U.S. Is Us," a daily two-hour course combining history and literature, led by two social studies teachers, two language-arts teachers and one special-education teacher. These classes include some of the brightest youngsters as well as the slowest, an approach Hohmann calls "teamstreaming." Teaching together takes more time, commitment and compromise, but it is rapidly becoming the norm at Fairdale -- a development that pleases ninth-grade teacher Brenda Butler. "I love the changes," she says. "We finally have an opportunity to voice...
...provide further help. One bill would create "strike forces" to investigate fraud and provide higher salaries for prosecutors of bank crimes. Says Nancy Kassebaum, the Kansas Republican who introduced the measure in the Senate last week: "It is time to take off the gloves and unleash our best and brightest prosecutors on the mess...