Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Braniff's employees were dismayed. Morale had been high, and many Braniff people had been led to believe that the airline just might make it with its slimmed-down route system, put into effect this past spring, and its aggressively discounted fares, offered beginning last fall. Said Steven Suhn, 30, a Braniff reservations supervisor: "We had two yards to go before the goal line." There were worries, too, among older Braniff employees over what would happen to their company pensions. They are protected under a 1974 law that guarantees at least part of their retirement pay if Braniff ends...
...powerful mythology. That mark shows up in some unlikely places. Barks' stories, as Film Director George Lucas points out in his affectionate Appreciation, are "very cinematic. They...don't just move from panel to panel, but flow in sequences-sometimes several pages long." Fans of the Lucas-Steven Spielberg adventure lark Raiders of the Lost Ark will discover a progenitor in The Seven Cities of Cibola. Indeed, Barks' stories and Lucas' Star Wars sagas share not only a gentle satiric edge but a kind of giddy imagination that leads into territory that is, in all senses...
Berkeley Student Body President Steven A. Anderson cites a $13,000 registration and draft counseling center and an $8,000 legal clinic along with the large sums given to about 150 campus groups and a lecture-note service as just a few of the ways in which undergraduates can benefit from the body's structure. He firmly believes that these elements of the autonomous government--much more than policy-making--are the core of the structure's legitimacy. Even at Ivy League schools where the budgets are considerably smaller, leaders reiterate the importance of funding. Says Princeton's Saxon: "When...
...youngsters take equally to the machines. In a typical computer class, only about one in five students becomes seriously involved. Says Steven Scott, 16, of Wausau's West High: "Either you get the hang of it or you don't." Even so dedicated a computernik as Ridgewood's Nick Newman finds programming interesting but only for a purpose. His own goal is to apply his computer knowledge to a career in science or medicine...
Harvard's team--which had made it into the nationals for five consecutive years--lost at the divisional playoffs of the national championships in March this year, but won a $750 scholarship grant for Harvard for its top-24 finish. Harvard team member Steven Rapkin '83 said yesterday...