Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This once and future king had decidedly modest beginnings. His parents, Paul and Clara Jobs, adopted Steven in February 1955 and later moved from Mountain View, on the peninsula south of San Francisco, to Los Altos after their son complained of rough times at the junior high school. "He came home one day from the seventh grade," Paul Jobs remembers, "and said if he had to go back to school there again he just wouldn't go. So we decided we'd better move...
There is a further rough parallel between the stormy personal waters Jobs was navigating at the time and some acute growing pains Apple was suffering almost simultaneously. The company's newest addition to the line, the Apple III, went on the market in November 1980 and turned out to be, at first, a thundering dud, what Jobs now characterizes as "an evolutionary product." Apple recalled and repaired the machines, and manufactured better new ones. "A learning experience" is what Jobs terms that parlous period now. Lisa?"a revolutionary product"?will determine just how well Apple has learned its lessons...
Bandstand memories. A trio or quartet of young women in identical dresses, heavy on the sequins and feathers, sway in gentle syncopation as they mouth the words to their new hit record. They have the rough, "found" beauty of stenos or inner-city cheerleaders, and they run through their number with artless urgency, as if they realize that this is their one fluky shot at stardom. They sing of the idealized male, who needs both adoration and protection: the angel baby, the rebel, the leader of the pack, the playboy, the soldier boy, the fine fine...
Despite the signal, the Argentines allowed a fatal day to pass before returning to the scene. A high Argentine naval official says that the destroyers were too far away, and the seas too rough, to permit a speedy rescue-explanations the British dismiss. For reasons unknown, the British Defense Ministry decided to keep silent about the secret message. Said a British intelligence source last week: "Those bloody fools threw away an ace card to satisfy their appetite for secrecy. As a result we were denounced as killers...
Invited by Dick Marr, Dooley's partner in a hockey school, the women will "rough it" at the Aspen Country Day School. "We'll be living at the school for a week," Dooley says, "so it will definitely give the girls an opportunity to learn about and appreciate each other a litte better...