Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's something wrong [with other schools' practices]," Cleary says. "While we want to get the best possible coaching, our motto is 'Athletics for All' and we spend accordingly...
...object, they unite form and function, utility and style. Ferragamo's shoes were as engineered as a suspension bridge and as theatrical as a butterfly. "Elegance and comfort," he once wrote, "are not incompatible." From the moment he began making shoes in 1907 until his death in 1960, his motto was that women did not have to suffer to be beautiful; shoes did not have to pinch to be chic...
...austerity, schools are being forced to rethink their missions, decide what they can do best and -- in a form of academic triage -- abandon certain fields of learning to others. Rice University in Houston has often been called "the Harvard of the South" (although these days the motto should be reversed, claims its president, George Rupp). Rice has flourished by trying to recruit National Merit scholars, who constitute 40% of the class of 1995, and by developing a national reputation for superb teaching in the sciences and social sciences...
...religions. The most prominent of these is the so-called New Age movement -- a vast, amorphous hodgepodge of spiritualism, faith healing, reincarnation, meditation, yoga, macrobiotic diets, mystical environmentalism and anything else that helps transform the self. Its followers sound as if they were born again, but without Christ. A motto often used by them is borrowed from Joseph Campbell: "Follow your bliss...
...bites of $100 or less. In Michigan, next to the pro-business Tsongas and right-to-work-state Governor Clinton, Brown looked like Samuel Gompers in Earth shoes. In a televised debate last Friday, Brown chided Clinton for luring employers to low-wage Arkansas, joking that the state's motto is, "Come on over, we have slave labor here." Brown has won the unofficial support of the new president of the cleaned-up Teamsters, Ron Carey, and United Mine Workers president Richard Trumka. Last week powerful California assembly speaker Willie Brown warned Tsongas and Clinton to stay...