Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rajiv has one sure advantage: he begins with the sympathy of the Indian people. Indira Gandhi, who had been a shy young woman, was never really trained to succeed her powerful parent, any more than Rajiv was. But in time she became a world figure who could still communicate with her people. One journalist who accompanied her on a trip a few years ago remembers how Mrs. Gandhi, when she visited a group of Harijan (untouchable) women who had been raped by men of a higher caste, sat down on the ground and listened to their stories. But she could...
...adults as well as students, notes that basically the tapes are designed for people who do not have time to read. Stephen Colbert, manager of a Waldenbooks store in the Ford City Shopping Center in Chicago, calls the tapes a panic buy, particularly for procrastinating high school students whose parents drag them in. Says he: "It's Tuesday night and the kid needs to have it by tomorrow, and the parent always says, 'This is the last time you'll do this...
...personalized style did not work in the American Express bureaucracy. Said one Wall Streeter: "He did not mesh well in a large organization." American Express is trying to minimize any damage to itself. It negotiated a no-competition agreement with Safra that runs through March 1988. The parent company also named Safra to its board and agreed to allow him to buy back some of the other properties he sold to American Express...
Just as Miss Manners urges, the Martins have reared, educated and nagged at two children, who appear to have acquired flawless manners. "It's amazing how much a parent can terrify a child without actually doing anything," says Nicholas, 18, a freshman at Harvard. Jacobina, 13, plays the harp and studies at a private school in Washington. Once when Martin relayed a prying reporter's request to interview the whole family at home, Jacobina objected, "But mother, I wasn't brought up in that manner...
...problem Janeway does not face is a lack of resources: the Globe's parent company has made a pretax profit of $40 million for the first nine months of 1984. He recognizes the paper's complex and imperfect character. "I want to nourish the traditions of individuality and crusading," he says, "but I may put greater emphasis on other flags we salute, such as consistency and keeping opinion out of the news columns." Adds Winship modestly: "Mike may be better at keeping the paper steady than...