Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Branson is new to the airline business. A school dropout at 15, he started by selling advertising from a phone booth for his own youth-market magazine, Student. Today his bustling $200 million empire includes pop and rock records, videos, discos, film production and retail music outlets...
Sculpted by Daniel Chester French--an MIT dropout who received an honorary Harvard degree in 1917--the statue was brought to Harvard and dedicated in October...
...remark, every intellectual twitch or tic is scrutinized, recorded, analyzed. In the frenzy of political combat, the candidate must improvise crucial strategic moves, keep his facts straight and try to look presidential to boot. Senator John Glenn said he was "perpetually tired" two months before the first primary. Fellow Dropout George McGovern seemed well rested, even twinkly, while he was in the race. Still, he says, "Fatigue is public enemy No. 1. It has become a most serious problem in American politics...
...chancellor, Alvarado increased his popularity among poor and working mothers by extending half-day kindergartens to full-day programs. He brought in volunteers and businessmen to work with city schools and began to combat the city's 45% dropout rate with pilot programs providing personal counseling for students. Says Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers...
...Wendy's chain has spent more than $8 million broadcasting its "Where's the beef?" TV ads (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). By comparison, Mondale and Hart between them have spent $2.2 million on TV advertising. Has an adman's whimsy been carried too far? Said Campaign Dropout George McGovern: "I think there's enough beef in both of them, if they don't turn each other into hamburger...