Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without the least background in business, he founded the TACOLCY Economic Development Corp., Inc., now one of the nation's most successful nonprofit community developers. He did not simply want to build nicer ghetto housing; he wanted to build an economy. "It was real new for us," he admits, "because it was an economic approach to solving problems, as opposed to social intervention...
...basic concepts as profit and the law of supply and demand. The 8,205 eleventh- and twelfth-graders who took the 40-minute multiple-choice test correctly answered less than 40% of the 46 questions. Declared William Walstad, a co-author of the study: "Our schools are producing a nation of economic illiterates...
...that George Bush, the heir-elect, looks out over the nation and raptly muses about a thousand points of light, savoring the phrase, if not quite understanding it. He did not add that the lights are shining into corners that have grown bleak and dim in the past eight years. And he got the numbers wrong. Out of sight of the Rose Garden, something like 80 million individuals are doing whatever they can to address the problems that politicians are fleeing...
...about 35,000 people living on the streets, compared with 500 a decade ago. AIDS, which alone has pulled thousands of people into action, did not exist. Crack, which has perhaps done more to ruin children than any other drug, did not exist. "Volunteerism is as old as the nation," says Winifred Brown, executive director of New York City's Voluntary Action Center, "and it's as new as today's headlines...
...generation. And government, in the meantime, could take some lessons from the most creative of these very private enterprises. Good ideas need money and leadership as well as light and oxygen to brighten and spread. In the process, we might even discover that this is already a kinder, gentler nation than we ever imagined...