Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BACK TO the debate, the two candidates who came off the best were Gore and Haig. Though sweating a lot from the t.v. lights, Gore was the most serious and forthright Democrat. He was the only one who didn't patronize Rainbow Coalition Founder Jesse Jackson, pestering the reverend for his muddled views on the re-flagging of Kuwaiti oil-tankers. Haig was far less screechy than the other right-wingers on the panel who lambasted the I.N.F. treaty and didn't come off as smug as did the more moderate Dole and Bush. But he's already been Secretary...
Though Christian Broadcasting Network Founder and multimillionaire Marion Robertson tried to keep his mouth shut, he still couldn't keep his foot out of it. He's a Republican, he said, because in the U.S. the G.O.P. alone stands for freedom. He thinks it high time America set out to decolonize the Soviet Union. And he'd sooner "believe in the Great Pumpkin and the Tooth Fairy" before he'd believe the Sandinistas would give up a smidgeon of power voluntarily...
...ladder. Many of the causes he has embraced, like revitalizing education, are apple-pie issues that provoke little dissent. Others, such as his opposition to the colorization of Hollywood films, can be ridiculed as merely trendy. More significantly, he has edged leftward from his moderate moorings (he was a founder of the Democratic Leadership Council, a centrist group) as he plays to the liberal activists who dominate the Iowa caucuses. He has reversed his support of tuition tax credits and now opposes back-door federal aid to private schools. He has soft-pedaled his stance on abortion, which...
While developers have been eager to build upscale offices renting for as much as $50 per sq. ft., the city suffers from a brutal shortage of moderate and low-cost housing. "The big weakness -- and real danger -- to the city is the failure to provide housing," says George Sternlieb, founder of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University. Families are forced by costs to move out of New York. Ultimately, says Sternlieb, "they take their jobs with them. Eventually the boss says, 'Why pay premium wages to people to commute? I can put together a better work force...
...burn center at James M. Jackson Memorial Hospital. On Chicago's South Side, some 20 neighborhood can pickers process more than 12,000 tons of scrap paper and metal each year at the Resource Center, one of the nation's largest nonprofit recycling operations. Ken Dunn, founder of the center, sees the collectors as successful entrepreneurs. Says he: "These people have built a very viable industry...