Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Weicker proclaimed his belief that the federal government should take an active role in promoting and financing higher education at a 1987 congressional hearing, an embattled Secretary of Education William J. Bennett asked in feigned amazement, "You are a Republican?" "Longer than you," Weicker replied...
When Graham preaches nowadays, those piercing blue eyes flash from behind bifocals, the honey-brown mane of hair is fringed with white, and it takes a half-second longer to uncoil his 6-ft. 2-in. frame when he stands up to preach. But the lilting Carolina voice, firm as ever, still stirs the stadiums. Graham's simple messages always conclude with words like these: "I'm going to ask you to get up out of your seat and come forward to say, 'I open my heart to Jesus as Lord and Saviour.' " To date, say the Graham computers...
...request transfers; they just quit. Fully half of all new teachers leave the profession within five years. The trend is more pronounced among minorities, who frequently work in schools with the most complex social and academic problems. Given attractive options in private industry, blacks -- as well as women -- no longer feel forced to endure jobs they consider unsatisfying. "The old days were different," says Chester Finn, former Assistant Secretary of Education. "A lot of our finest teachers were women and minorities who had no other place to earn a living...
...longer. Sears' popularity as a retailer has slipped drastically, eroding the company's profits and depressing its stock price. The slump finally forced the company's management last week to launch a major restructuring that involves paring down its overhead and revamping its marketing philosophy. In a bidding process that may take six months or more, Sears hopes to sell its tower for perhaps six times the $200 million it cost to complete in 1974. In addition, Sears will sell off the commercial-property division of its Coldwell Banker real estate firm for an estimated $500 million, and the health...
Because no vignette is longer than about 10 minutes, there is little time for characters or plot to develop. What remains is a series of theatrical one-liners--a puff pastry of a play...