Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went largely unquestioned until Galileo and other early 17th century sky watchers pointed the newly invented telescope at the sun and saw black spots on its surface. So much for solar purity. Despite clerical disapproval, the reality of sunspots was quickly accepted. Still, more than two centuries passed before Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, a German apothecary and amateur astronomer, discovered the strange, cyclic behavior of the solar blemishes...
...Carnegie recommendations add up to a middle school that is part classroom and part social-welfare agency, a combination that is bound to make some educators uneasy. "Middle school administrators have got their hands full just trying to educate kids, let alone creating warm, caring environments," says Samuel Sava, executive director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals...
...heart of the scandal is Samuel Pierce, Reagan's HUD Secretary. Though Pierce was the only black to serve in Reagan's Cabinet -- and its only member to remain in office throughout both Reagan terms -- the former President once greeted him as "Mr. Mayor" at a conference of mayors. Under Pierce's feckless leadership, HUD's budget was pared 70% (it stands at $14.9 billion for 1989). Little was done to halt a decline in the nation's inventory of low- income housing, from which 4.5 million units have disappeared since 1973. Critics charge that programs were dismantled, talented staffers...
...clout in Hollywood, Martin Davis, 62, would never be mistaken for a movie mogul. He is a soft-spoken man who clearly lacks the bravura of his former boss, producer Samuel Goldwyn, for whom Davis once worked as an office boy and press agent. But Davis is a man in a hurry. He leapfrogged to the top of Gulf & Western over two more senior executives after the death of conglomerateur Charles Bluhdorn. It took Davis just six years to transform Gulf & Western from an unwieldy, 1960s-style pastiche of unrelated companies into the more focused media giant that he renamed...
...wake of all the criticism, Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner sought last week to put the warnings in perspective. Said he: "The system is bulging at the seams, but it's still the safest in the world." Perhaps so, but its watchdog has been caught sleeping...