Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down from 21 five years ago. E.S.A. Executive Director Colin Couture believes that young people flock to the beaches because they are tired of highly regimented school sports. Says Couture: "In surfing, it's between you and the wave." Couture, who has persuaded the Boy Scouts in California, New Jersey and Florida to sponsor surfing programs, thinks the image of the sport has improved and is thus attracting more participants. "There is no longer the stereotype of the semiderelict surfer from the 1960s," says Couture. "For one thing, all those surfers have grown up and become lawyers, doctors, executives...
...businessman, Tisch certainly looks like a winner. Starting with a single hotel in New Jersey, he and his brother Laurence built a $7 billiona-year conglomerate. Tisch's mandate at the Postal Service will be to cut costs without alienating labor or losing an edge to increasingly competitive and technologically innovative private industry. Not an easy task, never mind snow, rain, heat or gloom of night...
...hysteria about drugs heightens, though, we would all do well to heed the words of Judge H. Lee Sarokin, who recently ruled that 16 New Jersey firemen suspended after failing surprise urine tests had to be reinstated, at least temporarily: "No matter how important war against crime and drugs, constitutional rights must not be sacrificed to win those battles...
...constitutional proscription against unreasonable search and seizure is not limited to only those who are suspected of criminal behavior," wrote a judge in another New Jersey drug-testing case. "Instead," he continued, "all searches...must satisfy constitutional reasonableness standards." The San Fransisco law, which requires reasonable suspicion of a specific individual's substance abuse--and a concomitant threat to the safety of others--best satisfies such standards. As George Shultz, a former college dean, should know, those who have nothing to fear because they have nothing hide lack also one other thing. They have nothing to prove...
...There's not one solution, there are 100,000 solutions." Iowa farmers are thinking about raising flowers, birdseed, llamas, snails and a few other items they never saw or tasted before. They pledge to work in factories, should anybody send one their way, better than the people in New Jersey and California. Adversity has fired them up again...