Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excellence. His well-publicized symbols of rule were a bullhorn and a baseball bat. His lessons included expelling 300 of the worst troublemakers en masse, chaining the school's doors to bar drug dealers and -- whooping audience delight here -- inveighing colorfully against laziness, incompetence and any politician or community leader who questioned his ways. But underneath all that, as the movie points out, were sweetness and caring: Clark redeeming a crack addict (Jermaine Hopkins), mending a mother-daughter conflict, nursing a comic obsession with getting the kids to sing the school song with gusto...
...capital threatened to stir more disquiet. The most important victim of the upheaval was probably President Perez himself, who had begun his second term in office (the first was from 1974 to 1979) with a huge margin of popularity. That goodwill was suddenly forgotten when the rattled leader failed to stop the violence with a rambling, sometimes angry television address. Meantime, Venezuela had provided the world with an ugly example of the trials Latin America faces in trying to step out of the debt quagmire...
...have started a price war by introducing a workstation for $7,450, far less than the typical $20,000 $ cost. Meanwhile, industry giants IBM and Digital Equipment were trying to rev up interest in their latest models. All these competitors are trying to knock off Sun Microsystems, the clear leader in the workstation business. Launched only in 1982, the Mountain View, Calif., firm has become a billion-dollar company on the strength of the new machines...
...Rutgers class of 1919 had big plans for its valedictorian: by 1940 he would be Governor of New Jersey and "leader of the colored race in America." As Martin Bauml Duberman observes in his compassionate biography, extravagant predictions were still being made for Paul Robeson 21 years later. The son of an escaped slave had already risen to international celebrity as a singer, actor and public speaker, and no limits were set on his future. Hardly anyone foresaw that he was standing on the edge of an irreversible decline...
...stunning upset ended decades of Labor Party dominance in numerous key regions. With more Labor strongholds expected to fall in runoff elections scheduled for next week, Labor leader Shimon Peres grudgingly agreed to an investigation into the humiliating defeat...