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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CLEANING OUT CLOSETS can be terribly confusing as piles of long-forgotten objects tumble out once we start to open the door. Behind the spiderwebs lie the dust-covered paraphernalia representing our past. In the mess, we find our first A in grade school, the cast from our first broken wrist, cracked pictures of former lovers; in Brian DePalma's case, he apparently re-discovered the reels from his 1969 movie The Wedding Party. Sometimes closets are best left unopened...
...unusual people--that's the third point. This is the last of the great Nixonian themes and as good a summary as any of his rambling and superficial analysis. His ruminations on this point like much of the rest of the book, sound straight out of a fourth-grade civics textbook. "Great leaders excite great controversies. If one wants insight into how an individual thinks and feels as an adult, it makes common sense that his family background and early years will often provide a clue. "The successful leader must know when to light and when to retreat, when...
...more children. Talented students are motivated to excel; those with less ability at least learn the basics. Like many Christian schools, the Bridgeport Academy uses a core curriculum of social studies, science, math, English and spelling interspersed with Bible teachings. The results make a strong case: at Bridgeport, eighth-grade students taking the Metropolitan Achievement Test averaged tenth-grade levels. At Nebraska's Faith Baptist, pupils scored a year ahead of their public school counterparts on the California Achievement Test...
...modest beginnings. His parents, Paul and Clara Jobs, adopted Steven in February 1955 and later moved from Mountain View, on the peninsula south of San Francisco, to Los Altos after their son complained of rough times at the junior high school. "He came home one day from the seventh grade," Paul Jobs remembers, "and said if he had to go back to school there again he just wouldn't go. So we decided we'd better move...
...nation's weak and troubled economy, the bond market's sudden jitters could not have come at a worse time Interest rates have dropped dramatically since last summer, when even the highest grade corporate bonds yielded close to 14%. But triple-A corporate bond yields still hover above 11%, and lower rated issues provide yields substantially higher Those are levels that many economists feel are far too high for sustained economic recovery...