Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents, where women's blouses were made. "When I was little, we would work until 1 in the morning, then sleep on the cutting table," she says. This year she wrote her senior thesis at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., on garment workers. "This is my parents' dream," she says. "This is America. America gives rights to women that would be unattainable if we were back in our homeland...
Like previous generations of immigrants, many Asians seek to realize their personal American dream not just by finding a good job but by starting their own business, the ultimate statement of independence. These enterprises also provide a chance to maximize the productive potentials of entire families and a way to absorb newly arrived members, who often become eligible for immigration after the pioneering one attains citizenship. The entrepreneurial impulse runs strongest among Koreans. Nearly one in eight Korean Americans is self-employed, by far the highest rate for any ethnic group. Says John Kim, a Korean-born New York lawyer...
Golf's unfairness, its primary feature, starts with the widely disparate knacks men have for the game. Not that it is a reasonable pursuit at any level. Only in Ben Hogan's sleep -- almost -- has golf ever been mastered: "The perfect score is 18, and I nearly dreamed it once. I had 17 holes in one and lipped out at the last. I was mad as hell." But the allure it holds for those who cannot play in the slightest is a secret as elusive as a dream. A few days after the Open, Golf Digest tried...
While the slump has left few firms untouched, none seemed more battered last week than Apple, the company whose founders began by tinkering with a circuit board in a California garage and went on to live a new version of the American dream. Among the problems that now plague the manufacturer are the gradual aging of its mainstay Apple II home computer and the recent failure of its Macintosh model to make much headway in the office market...
...Hardwick, a beautiful woman who lives on the island with her two young sons while her husband runs his huge chemical company and philanders back home in Chicago. Their love affair is passionate and brief; she sends him packing when he will not abandon risky underwater explorations and his dream of wealth. But spies employed by Marianne's husband have caught her and Mark on film in compromising positions. He is in big trouble even before he finds a haul worth $300 million...