Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...connecting the patriotism the network felt would be generated during the Olympics with that of this new series." The show was the highest-rated program the week it aired. Red Dawn, a crude fantasy about armed resistance to a Soviet takeover of the U.S., is an enormous box office success. MGM began filming it three months after the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight...
Even so, the success of Mondale's program depends heavily on a rather wishful scenario: as the tax increases and other measures begin to reduce the deficit, the pressure of federal borrowing on capital markets eases and the independent Federal Reserve Board figures it can funnel more money into those markets without increasing the danger of inflation. That combination pushes down the interest rate on federal borrowings from about 10% now to 7.5% in 1989. Paying lower rates on less borrowing, the Government saves $51 billion in interest costs on the federal debt five years from...
Somehow, though, it remains appealing to imagine that celebrities must, rightfully, pay for their success. After all, any celebrity who still passes through the supermaket line even once a year must see the (purported) personal lives of their comrades-in-popularity spelled out in bold print. However, just where the public garnered their right to know and just where the Enquirer-Star set aquired their duty to print it remains another logical step blithely assumed...
RARELY, HOWEVER, do the administrators step back and examine the fairness of that principle. Four years of college academics are surely not a pre-requisite to shoot lay-ups or catch touchdown passes. More importantly, college is not a pre-requisite for success in any number of other non-athletic fields. But, insist the defenders of the the present intercollegiate sports regime, football and basketball stars must also demonstrate aptitude and dedicating for college-level academics--even though those standards aren't impressed on businessmen or bakers...
...what can be done? Changing people's attitudes will take time, prodding and at least some intervention, yet the goal should be first to lay to rest the idea that academic success is a prerequisite for athletic success. Once that is taken care of, the path will be played to open up pre-professional football and basketball training--like minor leagues--in areas outside the college campus...