Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those chances rest with G.O.P. Primary Winner John Egan Jr., 39, a Democrat until just three days before he declared his candidacy. A high school dropout, he made his way from messenger boy to chairman of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, amassing a personal fortune. Goode strategists hope that Egan and the independent candidate, Thomas Leonard, a former city controller and Democrat, will split the vote of disaffected whites. Goode's campaign will continue to avoid direct appeals to black pride and to highlight his impressive credentials. The son of a sharecropper, he holds a master's degree...
...beefy and colorful Presser, 56, an Ohio Teamsters official, was elected to succeed Williams as head of the 1.7 million-member union last Thursday at an executive-board meeting in Arizona. An eighth-grade dropout, Presser began his career as a jukebox delivery boy. His late father, William ("Big Bill") Presser, a nationally known union leader who served two brief prison terms, helped young Jackie create Ohio Teamsters Local 507 in 1966. It now has over 5,000 members...
...editorials, timed to influence a December special session of the legislature, the Clarion-Ledger contended: "Mississippi public schools aren't making the grade." Among the ills cited: per-pupil funding of only $1,965 for 1981-82, vs. a national average of $2,671, and a dropout rate that is double the national average. The school system reflected a culture of poverty: Mississippi has consistently ranked lowest of all states in per capita income since record keeping began...
...central character is the rebellious, goofy boy who becomes a college dropout, an AWOL sailor, a protesting scholar and a waiflike pornographer. He could be a mere shnook. But as shrewdly played by Jack Gilpin, he is a natural winner with a compulsion to foul up to prove his independence. Ann McDonough, in the unshowy part of the girl, is compelling in the play's best moment: having married Gilpin's conventional younger brother, she sees Gilpin come through the window in his sailor's uniform to woo her away. She is all but ready...
...United Methodist Church, which has lost 1.4 million members since 1968, would normally welcome most converts. But its leaders must rue the day in 1979 when David Jessup, who had become a religious dropout in college, decided to join the Marvin Memorial Church of Silver Spring, Md. Jessup, 42, who works with the AFL-CIO'S Committee on Political Education, began to have questions about organizations that received Methodist funds. The end result of his curiosity is the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which, though small, can justly claim credit for the present furor over Protestant politics...