Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Transfer students deserve a little extra effort on the part of Harvard officialdom. They make the extra effort to come to Cambridge, they arrive with an inherent adjustment handicap, and all information seems to indicate that they do extremely well regardless. Giving them the chance to "do well" socially, as well as academically, is simply the logical fulfillment of accepting transfer students in the first place...
...Romanov might be the ideal age to please both the old guard and younger Politburo members. Yet Romanov, the secretary in charge of heavy industry and the military, has apparently not gained much in political clout or influence lately. Also, his Leningrad background is a handicap in the Moscow-centered world of Kremlin politics. Nonetheless he remains a major candidate in the eyes of many analysts, on the basis of having avoided appointment as the successor to Defense Minister Ustinov, a job that would probably have taken Romanov out of contention for party leadership...
...sold more than 275,000 Macintoshes. The company, the symbol of U.S. entrepreneurial innovation, saw profits in the first quarter of fiscal 1985 zoom to $46.1 million, an eightfold gain from the same period in 1984. Yet Macintosh (basic price: $2,195) and its maker have a serious handicap. Many Macintosh buyers have been Apple's characteristic flannel-shirt clientele--students, hackers and do-it-yourselfers--who make up only one-third of the $38 billion personalcomputer market. The largest part of sales go to corporate managers who still feel more at home with IBM's models...
...engineering and design staffs, and even its own president. He is Joseph J. Sanchez, 54, a former Oldsmobile division boss and head of GM Latin American subsidiaries. Sanchez will operate much like the chief executive of a totally new and independent company. Said Smith: "We are not going to handicap him with a lot of preordained rules." Freed from the heavy, established GM structure, Saturn's managers are supposed to move swiftly on several fronts to make cars that are, in both quality and cost, competitive with Japanese models. Currently, for example, Japanese automakers can turn out a vehicle...
...time they all took a boat cruise to Mexico. Ueberroth rarely goes to the movies and watches little television. While not intellectual, he is tirelessly inquisitive and reads about 30 books a year, preferring historical nonfiction. At 5 ft. 11 in. and 185 lbs., he is a good golfer (handicap: 8), and likes to skin dive and spear fish around his waterfront house in Laguna Beach. But until 1978 he had never really considered sport as anything more than a free-time enthusiasm...