Word: mcmahons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it comes to flinging a football and blowing off steam, nobody puts it together better than Jim McMahon. So the Chicago Bears quarterback was a natural to talk about stress for Connections, a biweekly series of billboard topics posted in 1,500 high schools around the country. Despite the munching pose he struck for one poster, McMahon rarely takes it out on the ball. His tips for coping with strain: "I never really worry about things before they happen. I let things happen and I deal with them then . . . It's important to keep your sense of humor...
...featuring such fare as vegetarian pita-bread sandwiches, diet cheeseburgers, frozen yogurt and light beer. The chain grew from one Atlanta outlet in 1981 to about 100 restaurants in 19 states last year. But now D'Lites may be down to its final few bites. Company President Jefferson McMahon, a former Arby's executive who was hired only last November to tighten up D'Lites' management, abruptly quit the top job last week. The chain acknowledged that it may soon have to seek bankruptcy protection unless it can arrange an infusion of new capital. D'Lites lost $18.7 million during...
Wallace Keith Joyner, nearly 24 but as callow as a bat boy, is the latest contribution from Brigham Young University to the world's sweatshops. Chicago Bears Quarterback Jim McMahon and Boston Celtics Guard Danny Ainge may be hard to think of as latter-day saints, but Joyner is easily pictured on the side of the Angels, a paragon on the order of Atlanta Outfielder Dale Murphy. The gray manager of the Angels, Gene Mauch, 60, says, "Joyner has a graceful way about him, at bat, on the field and in the clubhouse...
Harvard's number one singles player, Kathy Vigna, started out slow and never recovered. She dropped straight sets to Yale's Meghan McMahon...
...unnecessary secrecy. One of his first acts was to fire the small committee staff and replace it with a kind of miniature CIA of his own: 24 area and military specialists, systems analysts, economists and others grouped along the lines of the agency's organizational table and headed by McMahon, who was a top CIA executive during the Carter Administration. The staff keeps its own list of what it judges to be the ten most important issues in the world, ranging from Soviet foreign policy to the impact of declining oil prices, and pesters the CIA with an average...