Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sculley, 48, the hard- driving ex-Pepsi-Cola president. At first, his strategy of going after sales at major corporations created a legion of skeptics. But now Sculley, who wrested control of Apple in September 1985 from Co-Founder Steve Jobs, can afford to feel vindicated. Partly on the strength of burgeoning corporate sales, the company, based in Cupertino, Calif., posted second-quarter revenues of $637 million, an increase of 42% over the same period a year earlier. Only a year ago numbers like that would have seemed unimaginable. In fact, doubts were rising about whether upstarts like Apple could...
...church, so often a source of strength and shelter in the black and Hispanic communities, AIDS is a prickly subject. Both the black churches and the Roman Catholic Church have traditionally been bastions of conservative values on sexual and social matters, and the idea of preaching the use of condoms and clean needles is difficult for many clergymen. In the Hispanic community, moreover, where the cult of machismo still reigns, men regard even the discussion of condoms as a diminishment of manhood...
...whole male-female issue, I don't think Martina Navratilova could beat Ivan Lendl, nor Steffi Graff defeat John McEnroe. That is to be expected, with the strength advantage that men normally possess over women...
...think he's a wonderful person," said Scott. "It's great that a person of his strength, background and ability has agreed to come here...
Others manage to find strength and serenity in their affliction. Gerald lo Presti, a second tenor with the Gay Men's Chorus, was diagnosed as having AIDS in 1985. When crippling lesions spread to his vocal cords, Lo Presti had the lesions burned off and kept singing. When he could no longer sing the tenor range, he relearned all his parts in bass three weeks before the season began. Still later, he insisted on a blood transfusion that would allow him to tour with the chorus. "He practically had to be held up," recalls Perry George, a member...