Word: kenneth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they deserve some recognition for their redemption. "We're trying to break the cycle of you get up, you go to work, step over a homeless person on the way to the subway, go to the gym, go to the sushi bar, go home and fall asleep," says Kenneth Adams, executive director of New York Cares, a sort of charitable clearinghouse for yuppies that has recruited 600 young volunteers to tutor dropouts, serve in soup kitchens, renovate housing and visit the elderly. "The Me generation is dying," says Adams, "and New York Cares is one example...
There is a growing awareness among Western leaders of the need for workable solutions. French President Francois Mitterrand has suggested allowing an organization like the International Monetary Fund to buy depreciated Latin debt and accept interest payments in line with the loans' discounted value. Author John Kenneth Galbraith and Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs call for the Latin Americans to declare moratoriums on their current interest payments and pay only as much as they can afford. For some nations the plan would be tantamount to debt forgiveness, which would force banks to write off the loan- loss reserves they have...
...proper scale," says Irwin Shapiro, the irrepressible director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., and the man who dreamed up STAR six years ago. "High school science textbooks are impossible. They are dense with concepts and jargon. No one understands what's going on." Adds Kenneth Mirvis, who writes STAR course materials: "This is not a curriculum of vocabulary but of concepts." And, explains Shapiro, "facts are easy; concepts are hard...
...Nigel Holmes (Executive Director); Arthur Hochstein, Irene Ramp (Deputies); Billy Powers, Ina Saltz, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, James Elsis, Carol March (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief); John P. Dowd (Deputy); Stefano Arata, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Lisa Sampson, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Cynthia Davis, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...
...Brooke A. Masters '89 Night Editors: David J. Barron '89 Julie L. Belcove '89 Susan B. Blasser '90 Editorial Editor: Laurie M. Grossman '89 Features Editor: Brooke A. Masters '89 Sports Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editor: Ahn T. Nguyen-Huynh '90 Business Editor: Kenneth M. Richman '90 Copy Editor: Jennifer Atkinson...