Word: flagships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly $100 million last year, and Hasbro's Transformers, which brought in $114 million, have been challenged this year by two riveted rivals, Voltron and MASK. Produced by Cincinnati's Kenner Products, MASK is a line of seven ordinary-looking vehicles that bristle with hidden weapons. Rhino Rig, the flagship, converts from a common truck into a fearsome fighting machine...
...School, more than a half-million volumes are crumbling. At Countway Library in the Medical School, more than 150,000 books are falling to pieces. At Gutman Library in the Graduate School of Education, 50,000 books are turning to dust on the shelves. And at Widener Library, the flagship of the Harvard University Library system, more than 1 million books are crumbling...
...number of other colleges already have reforms in place. At the University of Michigan's flagship Ann Arbor campus, the grades and personal records of top high school recruits are carefully checked. No blatant jock courses are offered, and close to 80% of football lettermen have received their diplomas. At the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus, basketball players must sit out one game for every class cut. Duke University for many years has allowed no appeals by coaches on its strictly academic admissions standards, and Notre Dame combines tough entrance requirements with close monitoring of academic performance...
...then, however, the party has lost much of that self-assurance, as voters have become disillusioned by the country's lagging economy and by suspicions that the government of President Francois Mitterrand has been trying to cover up its involvement in the July sabotage sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the antinuclear Greenpeace movement. Opinion polls show that the voters are turning away from the Socialists to the conservative opposition parties. To many political observers, it now appears more than likely that the party will go down to defeat in legislative elections next March, which could force Mitterrand, whose...
DIED. Roger Miles Blough, 81, scholarly, reserved chairman from 1955 to 1969 of U.S. Steel, then the nation's fourth-largest company in terms of assets and the flagship of U.S. industry, who in 1962 had the misfortune to tangle with President John F. Kennedy over a proposed steel-price rise; in Hawley, Pa. An infuriated Kennedy called out several federal departments and agencies, including the antitrust division and the FBI, to investigate U.S. Steel; Blough had to back down from the price boost after other steel companies declined to follow his firm's lead...