Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bromides from the '60s about how you educate your children. It somehow played upon a parental concern that hadn't found a voice." Bloom also feels that he, like Hirsch, has aroused the concern of disaffected students. One editor of a major college newspaper recently told him, "We all felt we had been robbed of our educations, but we didn't know how to articulate...
...Noah was a local hero, a handsome, hardworking man no one dared challenge. If pushed too far, Noah Robinson would flatten adversaries, even whites, with his fists. "He was a black Lone Ranger," recalls a half brother of Jesse's, Noah Robinson Jr. "Jesse loved our father, but he felt totally rejected." When he was nine, Jesse used to stand in the yard and gaze across at his father's ) house. If a face appeared in the window, the boy would turn and run away. When big Noah took his own family on a trip, Jackson's biographer Barbara Reynolds...
...radio. The public revelations of those dealings last November and the fresh airing given the scandal on Capitol Hill over the past three months revealed Khomeini's willingness to traffic with the Great Satan and thus deeply embarrassed Tehran. In order to restore its credibility, Khomeini's regime apparently felt it imperative to demonstrate anew its hatred of America. "It all was like waving a red flag in front of Iran," says Gary Sick, a former Carter Administration official and expert on Iran. "They had to respond, to redeem themselves both domestically and internationally...
...occasion the government has felt obliged to draft white-collar bureaucrats into the military, thereby creating manpower problems in civilian life. When a tax officer who had been employed at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance was killed at the front, no one took over his ministry caseload. "During the last few offensives, the authorities have had to ^ mobilize the educated bureaucracy," says Rizvi. "The result is that many departments have lost competent people...
...Apple laid off 1,200 of its 5,500 workers (the company has since expanded to a work force of 6,500). Retail computer stores suffered a shake-out that forced an estimated 1,600 of them out of business by 1986. California's famed Silicon Valley suddenly felt more like Death Valley to some of its denizens. The problem: most Americans felt no need to spend hundreds of dollars to install computers in their homes, and chief executives of FORTUNE 500 companies began insisting that underlings make better use of the plethora of machines they had already purchased. "They...