Word: ts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scrapbooks at home with photos of all the children. "When I get home at night, I just jumps into bed and visualizes what a beautiful day I had! When you get a baby young and you work with it long enough, you can tell his dos and don'ts, you can tell each whimper," she says...
PREFECT INSTRUCTIONS boil down to series of don'ts. Don't date your freshmen. Don't do drugs with your freshmen. Don't give your freshmen alcohol--but don't make them stop drinking either. Don't give your freshmen academic advice because that is the proctor's role...
...shirts sound off with letters dense as coal and inches high. They are oversized Ts, big enough to sleep two stevedores comfortably and colored like signal flags. Wearable broadsides: CHOOSE LIFE. HEROIN FREE ZONE. PRESERVE THE RAIN FORESTS. EDUCATION NOT MISSILES...
Following the McDonald's formula, Ackerly eventually distilled her knowledge of "team cleaning" into a 300-page manual of dos and don'ts. The book serves as the basis for training new Mini Maid personnel. Among its teachings: pick up statuary in the middle, rather than at the top and bottom, and clean animal-skin rugs with a whisk broom rather than a vacuum cleaner. Sums up Ackerly: "The homeowner does not have to feed us, pick us up, give directions. We don't give a song and dance about our car breaking down as a reason for not showing...
...promises to be this spring's hot number for teens and tots: a foam-padded T shirt that instantly transforms the wearer into an incredible hulk. Already, 40,000 of the Power-Ts (at a hefty $19.95 each) have been snapped up for children eager to flaunt fake pecs...