Word: cult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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outsiders frequently see them as a cult...
...just a month before Plath committed suicide. The story of a young woman's descent into madness spoke to the rising women's movement as well as the romantic instincts of the college generation, and when the novel appeared in the U.S. eight years later, Plath became a cult figure...
...considered expendable under tight budgets. Currently, 17 states have mandatory phys ed. Only a third of all students take such classes daily; many get as little as one hour a week. Where athletic programs exist, they often emphasize team sports rather than individual conditioning. "Baseball has become a cult," explains Dr. Paul Dyment, head of the American Academy of Pediatrics sports committee, "but it's a game of skill, not fitness...
Khashoggi has no real consolidated corporate power base. He is a master broker but a precarious builder. Instead of constructing institutions, he has created a cult of personality. He is the product of the Middle East, where loyalty is to individuals, not institutions; he understands the psychology of one-on-one haggling, not the culture of corporations. "I am a trader," he says. "If I can make a decent profit, I prefer to take it and get out. There are others who hang on to an investment in the hope of realizing profits several times the money invested. They...
...They were players owned by Fred Zollner, who also happened to own a piston factory in Fort Wayne.) The early vogue of naming a team for a person seems to have come to an end with Paul Brown, the original coach of the Cleveland Browns. Fans who found the cult of personality distasteful at least were grateful that he wasn't named Stumblebrenner...