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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Okoye will probably endure well beyond that benchmark because of his late start. "Christian hasn't taken the usual hammering through high school and college, and although he's 28, he has the football body of a 22-year-old," says his Azusa track mentor Terry Franson. Now negotiating for a new contract to replace his expiring, $150,000- a-year deal with the Chiefs, Okoye stands to get a handsome raise. But the fans' adulation has not yet gone to his head. Cho-Cho still wears his Azusa cap, emblazoned with a cross, around the locker room, and says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kansas City's Gentle Giant | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...revenues: $8.98 billion), whose sickly profits have not been helped by the dreary ratings of its NBC television network. Others include Walt Disney Productions, whose movie business has been floundering, and United Cable Television, a Denver-based cable-TV operator with 615,000 subscribers in 18 states. Says Michael Franson, an analyst for Boettcher & Co., a Denver securities firm: "If you broke up United into pieces and sold them all separately, they would be worth more to investors than United is today." Franson reasons that the stock, which is now trading for about $28 a share, has a real value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swallowing Up One Another | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...faces with all-too-familiar problems. But like a stratified rock in Geology I, the school tells more about where the town has been than where it is going. English Teacher Tizoe Romero recalls the '40s, when Memorial was the poor white man's school. Coach Harry Franson remembers twelve years ago, when Memorial was overwhelmingly black. Today Memorial is about 70% Hispanic. A copy of the 1980 yearbook lies open on a table in the art room: Maggie Lopez and Marcos Robles "Best Couple"-and Georgina Araujo and Alfonso Martinez-"Best Hair." One searches in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Pay-as-You-Go Pedagogy | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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