Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boycotters eagerly point to a combination of the Coors family's political views and brewery employment practices as the reasons behind their boycott. Most boycott literature portrays William Coors and his brother, Company Vice Chairman Joseph Coors as somewhere to the right of Attila...
...younger brother, Owen, currently a high school junior, may be waiting in the wings. "He's in real good shape academically and a real good basketball player," Arne says. "[In the end, though,] he's got to do what's best...
Like America itself, though, Reagan is full of contradictions and oblivious to most of them. Wills dissects Reagan's early life and catalogues Reagan's historical revisions and inventions. Reagan would have it, for instance, that his family struggled through the Depression on its own. Yet Reagan and his brother were both able to attend college during the early 1930's. How so? Reagan's father, a loyal Democrat, used party connections to secure an important job with a New Deal public works agency. The New Deal, it turns out, "bailed the Reagans...
...father was a bit of a tyrant," Bette recalls. "He would flush the girls' makeup down the toilet. He'd lock my sister Susan out of the house when she came home too late. He taught my younger brother Daniel, who is brain damaged, to read and write by hammering and screaming at him until he got it. Every afternoon. None of us wanted to be in the house. But Daniel did learn, and it's made a big difference in his life. It gave him freedom. My father always thought I was a little odd. He never chose...
...cleanup is more like a purge. The republic's former leadership has undergone scathing criticism for inefficiency, nepotism, corruption and high living. Scores of officials have been dismissed from office, including many of those responsible for education. The minister for higher education was fired last week, and Kunaev's brother Askar was ousted as president of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. The head of the republic's Communist youth organization has also been ousted. In addition, teachers are being reprimanded for not keeping students under control. But if the Kremlin was quick to punish, it was also quick to placate...