Word: excellence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Billy Bell, sees it as a sequel to success. Bell has a few upscale plans of his own, among them bedding Kelly and beginning a political career. Only one problem nags: he does not know what politicians actually do. "They announced and attacked," writes Stevens. "He knew he would excel at that. But the rest...
...jobs for minorities. In the process he was able to wring concessions from such companies as Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Another group under the PUSH umbrella is proving to be a political liability in quite a different way. Last month federal auditors demanded that PUSH-EXCEL return $708,431 of over $3 million in U.S. Department of Education grants awarded between 1978 and 1981. The Government claims that PUSH authorities have failed to account for the money properly. Says Jackson casually: "It's really a dispute between auditors and accountants...
...guise of presenting "scientific consensus," dogmatic statements such as these are sprinkled throughout the April 1984 Newsweek on Campus article entitled "Asian Americans: The Drive to Excel." This article presents very little in the way of original or constructive analysis, instead reinforcing the tired old stereotype which so stigmatizes Asian-Americans: the perception of Asians as automatons, humorless, hard-working, unimaginative, and unquestioning. In short, Asians are, Newsweek on Campus seems to claim, the yellow peril, "frightening to non-Asians" and at the same time a "model minority" of superachievers...
...feel any less prepared than the other kids here," says Danielle A. Ausrotas '87, citing drama and computer facilities as areas in which the Cambridge schools excel...
...parent of young speed skaters, I was angered by your comment that speed skating is an obscure sport and "Heiden, the greatest speed skater in history-and an American-has flashed through without leaving a trace." Eric Heiden chose to excel in a sport that demands grace and strength, instead of one like hockey, which can be brutal and violent. I am proud that my children chose to emulate...