Word: major
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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public opinion around the country last week found Americans almost unanimously against handing over the Shah to Khomeini. "We'd be groveling if we caved in now," says Boston Lawyer-Author George V. Higgins. But some consider that it was a major blunder to admit the Shah in the first place, even for medical treatment. Above all, there is frustration and anger. Willard Hedrick, owner of a construction company...
Next came Vassar and the recognition that this wholesome young woman possessed an eerie gift. Clinton Atkinson, a director on the college staff, found her acting "hair raising, absolutely mind boggling. I don't think anyone ever taught Meryl acting; she really taught herself." After graduating with a major in drama, she joined a small repertory company in Vermont and then won a three-year scholarship to the Yale School of Drama. Her classwork won ever higher praise. "Whenever she did a scene," says Director Robert Lewis, who was a professor there at the time, "you wished that...
Quality sells partly because so many women have gained paying jobs. Out in the working world, earning their own money, they have become more discerning, demanding shoppers. Another major factor is that many consumers are moving into a group that Stephen Frankfurt, director of creative planning for Kenyon & Eckhardt, has labeled the "maturity market." They are the folks in the 34% of U.S. households that are headed by adults aged 45 to 64. They have the highest family income in the nation. More important, they have worked hard for their wealth and do not want to waste it on tinsel...
...affairs vice president, Herbert Schmertz, joined the Kennedy campaign staff as a top media adviser, even though Schmertz has repeatedly condemned the Senator's attacks on the oil industry. Kennedy supports the budget-paring efforts of Carter, but he fought this year to protect social spending programs from major cuts and co-sponsored legislation for such programs as federal funding for nurses' training and money for school lunches...
...FORTUNE 500 and thousands of other firms from Mexico's Yucatán to Canada's Yukon and into Europe. More than that, from his glass-walled office overlooking aptly named Eden Prairie, Minn., Grossman propagates some unorthodox notions about how to build a major enterprise and motivate managers and enhance productivity...