Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what count now. And of all the people who have floated these questions into the cultural ozone?scientists and sociologists, computer freaks and microchip madmen, quick-buck artists and free-falling futurists?none has kept them aloft for so long, or turned them to such profitable purpose, as Steven Paul Jobs...
...balmy side of $210 million. But past the money, and the hype, and the fairy-tale success, Jobs has been the prime advanceman for the computer revolution. With his smooth sales pitch and a blind faith that would have been the envy of the early Christian martyrs, it is Steven Jobs, more than anyone, who kicked open the door and let the personal computer move...
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...
...mountains, and she became pregnant before they finally broke up anew. The baby, a girl, was born in the summer of 1978, with Jobs denying his fatherhood and refusing to pay child support. A voluntary blood test performed the following year said "the probability of paternity for Jobs, Steven. . . is 94.1%." Jobs insists that "28% of the male population of the United States could be the father." Nonetheless, the court ordered Jobs to begin paying $385 a month for child support. It may be noted that the baby girl and the machine on which Apple has placed so much hope...
...Portland, Ore., in Minneapolis, in Palm Beach County, Fla.-but they all enjoy sturdy funding from local government. Many of the more embattled programs are trying new techniques to hold the line. The Atlanta Legal Aid Society has new 45-min. instructional videotapes for its clients. Explains Director Steven Gottlieb: "We show them how to handle dispossession, how to negotiate with landlords, how to do things for themselves in court if they have to." Leaders of the Florida bar are trying to make it mandatory for members to give 25 hours of service a year or $500 in donations...