Word: likes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remainder of the day is filled with menial labor: whacking weeds, swabbing floors, painting walls, marching in formation. As they half-step, an officer asks, "What is the word for the day?" The platoon answers, "Self- discipline. We like it. We love it. We want more of it, sir!" At 10 p.m., it is lights...
...Braden has never met a sport he didn't like. He runs a ski college in Aspen, and has made volleyball and badminton instructional videotapes. Using high-speed cameras and computers, he has analyzed and critiqued the techniques of such star athletes as baseball's Reggie Jackson, pro-football quarterback Steve Grogan and Olympic stars Al Oerter (discus throw) and Edwin Moses (hurdles). In tennis, his coaching helped launch the careers of Tracy Austin, Eliot Teltscher and Jim Pugh (a mixed-doubles winner at Wimbledon this year...
Braden provides just that. At the college, he rewards good performance with cheers and compliments like "Keep that up, and you'll be famous by Friday." Slow learners feel comforted by his gentle way of identifying with their struggle to improve. "Don't forget," he tells his charges, "every day 2 million Americans play tennis and 1 million of them lose...
Besides addressing broader goals, smoothing out financial differences could make "choice" -- a policy permitting parents to move their children from schools they do not like to ones they do -- more palatable to critics. Until now, the chief complaint has been that choice encourages parents to abandon poor inner-city schools. If every school got roughly the same funding, parents could make judgments based on nonmonetary concerns, and failing schools would have the resources to improve...
...series that includes anthology albums for a number of major Brazilian pop stars. Celluloid, an independent U.S. label, has launched a subsidiary called Braziloid, dedicated to musica popular brasileira, a term used by Brazilians to refer to the country's diverse contemporary sounds. CBS Records is promoting Brazilian stars like Djavan and Rio de Janeiro-born vocalist Milton Nascimento as pop acts...