Word: tuckered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American farmers, has joined the ranks of Chrysler and Lockheed in pleading for a federal bailout to save it from collapse. FCS officials last week went before Congress and in dire tones declared that the system needs $6 billion in federal aid to stay afloat. Said Ray Moss Tucker, a Kentucky dairy farmer and the group's chief spokesman: "Our request for assistance is one of the most difficult decisions we have ever made. But we have no choice...
...magazine, co-edited by Robert Tucker and Owen Harries, has a press run of 5,000. But Executive Editor Tod Lindberg predicts circulation will reach 12,000 within two years. The nonprofit magazine is supported by several conservative groups, including the John Olin Foundation, which contributed $600,000. Kristol is already optimistic enough about the journal's potential influence to label it part of a new "trinity," along with Foreign Affairs (circ. 90,000) and Foreign Policy...
...this month, the number of computers in U.S. classrooms has reached some 1 million (up from 630,000 last year). More and more of them will be used to teach the sort of practical skills that Angie found profitable: financial modeling, data-base management and word processing. Explains Marc Tucker, director of a Carnegie Corp. study on the subject: "Increasingly, schools view computers as intellectual assistants, as tools in the hands of kids, not as things to be programmed or to deliver instructional material...
...City, asked regarding a perfume pitch on one page, "That's not an ad, is it?" It was, and some agencies are skeptical of the trend. Says Advertising Executive Katie Muldoon: "It's confusing, and we wouldn't recommend it to our clients." But contends Agency Head Jo-Von Tucker: "The more prestigious the store the higher the possibility for success...
...council acted only after the supreme court of Transvaal province ordered it to look into Biko's death. Although it could have permanently barred both men from practicing medicine, the council merely barred Tucker for three months and suspended the sentence. Lang was dismissed with a reprimand...