Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Derrick Towns, 19, a freshman at Chicago's North Park College. Could Towns have made it to school without Assistance Ltd.? "I'd be working at a Burger King, maybe, or anything I could get," he replies. Another big winner: Roskam, who just learned that Assistance Ltd. this month will receive a special citation from President Reagan's program for private sector initiatives...
...times, Carr announced that he was changing his name to Abdul Automobile. But after three years of only personal prosperity, he felt somberly incomplete. "I was second or third in minutes played, averaging 18 or 19 points a game. Statistically everything was right. But I wanted to be a winner. I went free agent and, though New York offered the most money, I guess I needed to be a Celtic." Boston had won only 29 of 82 games that year, but Bird was on the way. Since then, through six seasons of diminishing playing time, Carr has never known anything...
...longer regrets passing up Stanford, USC or UCLA. "It might be good for some Harvard was the perfect place for me what class is from Harvard--everybody at Harvard is a winner...
...Music Luise Vosgerchian, explains her philosophy. "There are two ways of educating," she says. The first is for the professor to devote his or her life to research and then present the results to the students who can then "accept or reject it," she explains. The second method, the winner of one of this year's Levenson Awards for outstanding teaching explains, is to diagnose the extent of the student's knowledge and "then proceed to challenge the student...
...grind of dieting and exercise before the contest, her spirits were kept high by daily telephone pep talks from the reclusive Begin, who did not, however, attend the event. As runner-up, Ayelet won $500 and the right to represent Israel in the Miss World contest in London. (The winner goes to the Miss Universe competition.) Said a contest spokesman afterward: "It certainly is a change of direction for the Begin family." Indeed, Grandpa may be a hard- liner, but Ayelet's lines are considerably softer...