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...with substandard grades, were allowed to pass, allegedly so that they could play in the 1982 Sugar Bowl. After speaking out against this and other examples of classroom cosseting of star jocks with fourth-string grades, she was demoted and then fired by the university in 1983. In deep despair, she twice attempted suicide...
Mexico's woes have distracted U.S. attention from its own patch of despair in Oklahoma and Texas, said Thurow. Falling crude prices have not only devastated many oilmen there but also their suppliers and much of the real estate industry. Says Thurow: "When the oil industry goes down, the whole infrastructure starts to fall in value." The evidence is abundant. The accounting firm of Price Waterhouse reported last week that the number of Houston businesses declaring bankruptcy rose 33% last year...
...There is no going back in pleasure. "Bother!" said Toad. He picked up a No. 1 Eberhard Faber pencil. He eyed it with the despair of a suddenly toothless gourmand confronting a life of strained carrots and peas. He found a schoolboy's lined notebook and started to write...
Although Keller later allowed the team to resume its schedule, he said his reaction to the incident was "horror and disgust, and some amount of despair that we, as academic institutions, have created the environment in which that can happen." Last week the university suspended two more players for breaking unspecified "team rules," forcing Interim Coach Jimmy Williams to recruit * three new players, including two from the football team, to fill in during a stunning 70-65 upset victory over Ohio State...
...loves to talk gadgetry and hankers to go weightless. He does not know that much about the byways of the solar system. But his sense of American pride has been almost faultless. He has understood intuitively that people must have a challenge that takes them out of the despair that crowds every day. There must be a new frontier beckoning, promising some new hope. He even sees space as a way, in his words, "to render nuclear weapons obsolete." But his proposal to build and perhaps share satellite-based missile defense shields failed to produce the superpower cooperation he says...