Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...section on smoking and health hazards, and Tommy Payne, director of R.J. Reynolds, announced two weeks ago that his company planned to follow suit. Previously, Philip Morris had only gone so far as to claim that smoking may be a "causal factor" in certain diseases, and many commentators now say that the company has taken a radical step simply by changing a few words...
Candidate statement: "A lot of politicians go out and say that they are wonderful and better than everyone else, I have a more cooperative approach. No one person can do it alone. I am looking to get as many like-minded people...
...with Achieva. Counselors help kids choose whom to ask for recommendations and then edit the cover letters and resumes that students are told to give to the chosen instructors. There's even strategizing on the art of asking. "Make sure you ask for a strong letter. You have to say strong," Elissa Hull, a counselor in Achieva's Cupertino center, insists to senior Will Chen. If the teacher demurs, she says, Chen should yank back the request rather than end up with lukewarm praise. Achieva keeps its student records in files that look like doctor's folders, with vitals--classes...
...what does it mean for Achieva to be coming to the rescue of some public schools? It has become routine for schools to hire private companies to do, say, catering and security. But when the seven high schools in San Jose's East Side Union school district contracted with Achieva for college counseling, it marked perhaps the first time a business had been hired in public schools to handle an academic area. And this year Fred deFuniak, principal of Silver Creek High School, is thinking of hiring Achieva not only for test prep but also to teach reading and writing...
...rolls are down and incomes are up and government spending represents a smaller share of GNP than at any time since 1974. And just when Al Gore finally gets his turn to bid for the job he has trained for his whole life, along comes Bradley as if to say, Thanks, Al, for this great economy, but I'm the only guy with the guts and imagination to know what to do with...