Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AIDS is a "condom marketer's dream," says John Silverman, president of Ansell Americas, the sellers of LifeStyles condoms, whose most startling magazine ad, directed at American women, features a young woman resolutely proclaiming, "I enjoy sex, but I'm not ready to die for it." Mentor, a new line, is marketed directly to women, who purchase nearly half the condoms sold. It comes in a tiny plastic cup designed for women's purses (the traditional flat packaging is for men's wallets...
There will be no overnight cures, but New York Senator Moynihan calls the emerging consensus for reform a "rare alignment" that could effect worthwhile change. -- Robert Gates succeeds his ailing mentor William Casey as CIA Director. -- Gary Hart is the Voyager of American politics: lean, / proficient and built for the long haul...
...drama began when O'Donnell came to Johnston, his mentor, with a proposal to take the company private through a leveraged buy-out: a financial transaction in which investors, often company insiders, use borrowed funds to gain control of a firm. Johnston listened politely to O'Donnell but made no response. For the next few days the two men communicated only through intermediaries, until Johnston called the company's outside directors to an unscheduled meeting to hear what O'Donnell...
...This is a helluva win for us," a jubilant Harvard Coach Pete Roby said. "Someone just reminded me that this was my first [road] win in this uniform," the second-Year mentor and former Dartmouth player exclaimed, pointing to his jacket...
Where does it all come from? Martins credits the expanded audience for ballet. "Remember when everyone talked about the 'ballet boom' in the '70s? Well, it's permanent." He praises the N.Y.C.B.'s affiliated School of American Ballet, its national recruiting staff and its faculty, singling out his own mentor, Stanley Williams. "Stanley modeled those little muscles to look that way," he says of his Petits Riens cast. "It's a long, endless process, a quality of movement, an attention to detail." But the dancers know Williams is not the only one who cares about details. Says Martins: "Balanchine...