Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME'S cover in 1970. Jackson set a fleet pace as he spoke at nearly every session and constantly talked with reporters in crowded lobbies and hallways and in his 70th-floor suite. A few days later White joined Jackson en route to Los Angeles, and the real marathon began...
...available for anything from a long weekend to a week or more. Typically, hands-on classes with the machines begin right after breakfast and continue until lunch. In the afternoon, such activities as hiking and boating are offered, although most campers head back to the keyboards for marathon sessions that may drag on until lights out. But it is not all work and no play. Says Eugene Galanter, who runs the Summer Computer Institute at Amherst College in Massachusetts: "We also have an occasional break for martinis...
From kindergarten onward, students are off on a marathon of constant learning that takes them over a series of examination hurdles, the last of which determines admission to college and in effect a career. Individuals are driven, but academic achievement is a group endeavor. Everyone is expected to learn, and everybody does. "The teacher works to elevate the level of achievement of the class as a whole," explains Rutgers Education Professor Nobuo Shimahara. The Japanese make no effort to single out slow or gifted pupils for special classes. Nor are inadequate students held back; the shame is thought...
...central issue, relations with the Soviet Union, there has been what one top diplomat called "a whiff or two of movement" from Moscow of late. But the movement seems isolated in such secondary areas as a human rights agreement at the marathon conference in Madrid (see WORLD). In the far more important arena of nuclear-arms talks, new details of a Soviet proposal seemed to emphasize rather than ease a continuing deadlock. In the Middle East, U.S. diplomacy has stalled severely. Late last week the White House had not even received official confirmation that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin would...
...marathon secret negotiations started in April with a visit by Alleghany Corp. Chairman Fred Kirby II to American Express at the invitation of Chairman James Robinson 3rd and President Sanford Weill. The talks progressed into July and were partly conducted by radio telephone between Kirby's isolated summer retreat in the Adirondacks and American Express headquarters in Manhattan. At one point, Kirby used a pay phone in a country hotel to call Weill, who told the Alleghany boss he was not "going to negotiate a billion-dollar deal on the telephone." Thus the executives met face-to-face...