Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...potential victim of the cuts may be the school's affirmative action hiring system. Earlier in the fall, the school department had signed a contract with Cambridge Teacher's Association (CTA) which specified that teachers were to be layed off on a seniority basis. But when Proposition 2 1/2 was ratified, forcing the issuance of pink slips. Superintendent William C. Lannon made lay-off decisions using "qualification," a term unspecified in the CTA contract but defined by the school committee as experience in a subject, commitment to a particular program and race. The CTA challenged Lannon's policy...
LAST NEW YEAR'S EVE, the sagging economy claimed another victim. Max's Kansas City, one of Manhattan's best known and most innovative rock clubs closed its doors for good, symbolically ending an era of popular music. At Max's, Bruce Springsteen once opened for Bob Marley, the New York Dolls got their start, and a plethora of unknowns enjoyed brief moments of fame, But above all, the Village hangout will be remembered by veterans of the 60s as the birthplace of Lou Reed's Velvet Underground, perhaps the most influential group to ever emerge form New York City...
...obscenely early age. In their blackest moods, the writers for NBC's original Saturday Night Live might have used these facts to make a satiric point about the self-destruction of performers who spoke most electrifyingly to their generation. And at the end of the skit, the victim-played by SNL 's reigning cutup, John Belushi-would have sprung back to life, bounced to his feet and bellowed: "But no-o-o-o!" But yes. Late last week, in a bungalow of West Hollywood's Hotel Chateau Marmont, Belushi-the Blues Brother, the raging bull of Animal...
...International is a victim of technological change. The 58-year-old firm was struggling as a manufacturer of old-fashioned duplicating machines in an age of Xerox copiers when Roy Ash, former head of Litton Industries and Budget Director in the Nixon Administration, took over in 1976 as chairman. Ash immediately began buying up companies that manufactured electronic office equipment and moved the company headquarters from Cleveland to Los Angeles. The new products, including word processors, copier devices and credit-card billing systems, soaked up millions of dollars in development costs, and AM International's profits fell sharply...
...reputation as an efficient executive for his role in turning around Maremont Corp., a manufacturer of auto parts. When he was recruited by AM's board of directors, he took their word that the company was stable and had good growth prospects. Now he says he was the victim of an "industrial Watergate" that covered up sloppy business practices. Replies Ash: "He says I'm responsible for these losses and I'm saying just the contrary...