Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many student athletes, whose efforts make this bonanza possible, spend their college years scrimping to make ends meet. A large number of these players are black and look on basketball as their one chance to escape from poverty. But the path to the National Basketball Association, where annual salaries average $600,000, is exceedingly narrow. The chances of making it are less than 1 in 500. Nearly 20,000 young men play college basketball; about 40 will make the N.B.A. each year. "The odds of becoming a brain surgeon are greater than the odds of winning a starting spot...
...thriving agricultural concern then, boasting up to 130,000 head of livestock, 800 workers who sold 10,000 liters of milk a day, and 170 administrative and technical advisers. A column of guerrillas armed with machine guns, members of the 5,000-strong Maoist revolutionary group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), marched in to destroy everything and starve anyone who did not cooperate with them. The rebels killed or took most of the animals, executed one director and three administrators of the co-op, and destroyed tractors, before disappearing into the countryside. Today the cooperative is nearly deserted, and those...
...capital of Peru's breadbasket department of Junin, Sendero Luminoso is locked in a battle for dominance with the Cuban-oriented M.R.T.A. rebels. The city, says Raul Gonzalez, a sociologist and expert on the Sendero Luminoso, "is now the critical spot to Sendero's future." From there, the Shining Path, which already controls at least one-third of the countryside, intends to take Lima, only 120 miles away, by encircling it and cutting it off from the rest of the country...
...introduce a formal basis for such a discriminatory system. Put forth by author Felice Schwartz in an article in the January-February issue of the Harvard Business Review (title: "Management Women and the New Facts of Life"), the plan suggests relegating most working mothers to a gentle career path, which wags have dubbed the Mommy Track. Only women willing to set aside family considerations would be singled out for the fast lane to the executive suite. The startling idea has raised concern that corporations will find a new justification for passing over women, this time not for alleged inability...
...trend that has accelerated in the past decade. As small towns shrivel, so does a way of life that helped define the national character. -- Despite qualms, the U.S. will assist Japan in building the FSX jet. -- The Mommy Track debate: Should motherhood put a woman on a slower career path...