Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...education can succeed until better-qualified students are willing to become teachers. One way to accomplish this would be to forgive the college indebtedness of top students who spend three to five years in the public schools. Academic underachievers need not apply. To qualify, students should be in the upper third of their graduating classes and major in subjects that are most in need of able teachers: math, sciences, computer technology and foreign languages. Annual cost: $500 million...
Louis Lopez, 47, leans on crutches against a newspaper kiosk on upper Broadway in Manhattan. He used to be a TV repairman, until he got caught in the cross fire of a gang shoot-out 18 months ago. He collects $370 a month in disability benefits. "How can I live on that? I am a good technician. But as you see, I can't work." Does he drink, use drugs? "No. I can hardly crawl around when I am sober...
Such clients appreciate small shops because the advertisers can command the faithful attention of the agencies' top talent. Doing business with a small firm typically entitles the client to deal with the boss, while at a mega- agency the upper echelon usually concentrates on major accounts like IBM (budget: $138 million). But the greatest lure is the little shops' reputation for creativity. In last June's annual Clio Awards ceremony, the industry's equivalent of Oscar night, Fallon McElligott of Minneapolis ($142 million) won twelve prizes. The most honored Madison Avenue contender, BBDO Worldwide ($3.7 billion), won seven. Among...
Garakani bluntly explained the Ilizarov bone-stretching surgical procedure, developed in the Soviet Union to correct dwarfism, which Dr. Victor Frankel, president and head of orthopedic surgery at Manhattan's Hospital for Joint Diseases, intended to introduce into the U. S. The shin, thigh and upper-arm bones would be cut clear through, leaving only the bone cavity and the marrow intact. A special frame, with steel pins going through the bone on each side of the cut, would keep the pieces in line and allow them to be pulled apart a millimeter a day. New bone would form...
...stretched by 5 in. and his left thigh by 3 in. His skin and muscles are drawn painfully taut. He survives on codeine, Demerol, other pain-killers and huge doses of mind control and courage. He has to undergo at least three more sets of operations -- on the upper arms, the right thigh and the left shin. He broke down one day and ordered everybody out of the room. "I want to be by myself!" Did he regret the operation? "No!" he screamed. "Grownups cry for much less pain! Leave me alone, please...