Word: cole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prolonged austerity and retrenchment," says Peter A. Morrison, director of the Rand Corp.'s Population Research Center. "The class of '64 in a sense was the last one to get through a wide pipeline, when things worked well and the economy was in good shape." Says Jonathan Cole, who graduated from Columbia University in 1964 and now teaches sociology there: "We had a feeling then that the universe was expanding. Now these kids seem to feel it's contracting, closing in on them." Walter Brown, head of the job placement office at California State University...
When the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain threatened two years ago to fold its longtime flagship Cleveland Press, at which E.W. Scripps launched his empire in 1878, Joseph E. Cole, 67, a Democratic Party activist and millionaire merchant, stepped in. Cole insisted that a local owner could better compete with the Newhouse-owned rival Plain Dealer to keep Cleveland from becoming a one-newspaper town. With the same confidence that had lifted him from poverty as the youngest of a peddler's eight children, Cole spent $1 million acquiring the Press and an estimated $18 million to $20 million sustaining...
...alas, fast enough. Last week Cole conceded that his pockets were not deep enough to continue covering losses gauged at $500,000 or more a month; efforts to secure a partner had failed. Said Cole: "I had my heart set on keeping two vibrant and independent voices, but we just could not make...
...existing rules of amateurism could have been written by Cole Porter: Anything goes. On the occasion of his second consecutive victory in the New York Marathon last October, Alberto Salazar allowed as how, given a choice, he prefers his cash "under the table" rather than by way of one of the new trust-fund arrangements the International Amateur Athletic Federation has approved as a slender hedge against hypocrisy. Also on behalf of under-the-table money, Fred Lebow, the New York Marathon's candid proprietor, points out that it "is legal as far as the governments are concerned...
...down the street, people will get out of your way." One burn, however, ran after him, asking. "Hey, buddy, can I get a light?" While Pryor was on the table in the emergency room, he claims he heard one of the orderlies say. "Why don't we get some cole slaw and serve this stuff up?" Pryor ends the routine by thanking God for not burning his private parts...