Word: upper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After graduation, the 17-year-old decided to take a year off from school. He hooked up with Riverside Church, an amateur basketball team located in the Upper West Side, to sharpen his skills...
...escorted from the building. Driven across town to Manhattan's federal court building, the handcuffed executive joined another distinguished Wall Streeter who had been arrested the night before. Timothy Tabor, 33, a former Kidder, Peabody investment banker and subsequent Merrill Lynch executive, had been picked up at his Upper East Side apartment. The charge against both men: conspiracy to commit insider trading...
...schoolteacher. Her children Karen, 11, and Michael, 10, had vanished, most likely on the day their mother was killed. They have never been found, and are presumed dead. A seven-year investigation eventually led to the arrests and convictions of two men, former colleagues of Reinert's at the Upper Merion High School outside Philadelphia...
Bradfield was an Upper Merion English teacher and is now serving three life sentences for conspiracy in the Reinert murders. The actual killings were done by Jay Smith, the school principal, who was sentenced to death and awaits execution. How Smith ever got to be an administrator of impressionable youth remains one of those mysteries of American public education. He fixed people with a cold, goatish stare and liked to shock. His opening remark to a teacher who had recently lost her husband: "As a young widow, perhaps you could tell me how you handle your sex life." When police...
High corporate rank has provided no immunity from the restructuring effort that has taken place so far. "The efficiency problem," Darman points out, "is a white-collar problem even more than a blue-collar problem." Between 1983 and 1987, some 600,000 to 1.2 million middle- and upper-level executives with annual salaries of $40,000 or more lost their jobs. An additional 200,000 to 300,000 such executives are expected to receive pink slips over the next two years...