Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many businessmen feel that a private-sector summer job gives a teen-ager more meaningful training than its government equivalent does. Says Ted Bruinsma, president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, which has co-sponsored "First Break-Give a Kid a Job" for ten years: "This is a teen-ager's first glimpse of the business world. We want the experience to be a real...
...program specifically request a referral to a tax credit-qualified worker. "It's an incentive program that has done incredibly well," says Program Manager Julia Steinman. The credit is especially helpful to the small employer. "It means you don't have to take a bath if the kid doesn't work out," says Terrence Brown, whose Philadelphia-based architecture and planning firm hired four teen-age boys interested in the building trades. Says Fred Kleisner of the Greater Washington (D.C.) Board of Trade: "What it tells the private sector is that the Federal Government is willing...
...reverse its steadily declining share, was the first major company to start selling the generics. Paced by its bestselling Chesterfield, Liggett had about 25% of sales in the 1940s, but that fell to less than 3% by 1981. Says President K.v.R. Dey Jr.: "We were the smallest kid on the block." The company was laying off workers, selling its foreign divisions and closing warehouses, when company executives hit on the idea of selling no-name cigarettes. Test marketing began in June 1980, and national distribution started in late 1981. The generics, costing $1.50 to $2 less a carton than brand...
...hand-me-down roles and parlayed them into movie stardom. In 48 HRS., released last Christmas, Murphy played a sassy convict sprung from stir for two days to help Tough Cop Nick Nolte catch a couple of killers. The film's director, Walter Hill, says of Eddie: "This kid is so enormously talented he can get away with anything." This time Eddie ran away with the movie: 48 HRS., for which he was paid $200,000, has tallied an imposing $78 million at the box office...
Long before he met Pryor, Murphy had learned to admire the artist, not imitate his excesses. Pryor was and remains a street kid, always in trouble or on the move, honing his hostility into a fine and angry art. Murphy, as Landis notes, "has solid middle-class values. Put it another way: he's too vain to destroy himself." He does not smoke, drink or use drugs, and even after he hit it big on SNL, he continued to live in his suburban home with his mother, stepfather and half brother Vernon Jr., 16. "Being black has never been...