Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steve, who had started as a youngster picking up wet towels and sweaty uniforms from the Colts' dressing room floor, was left only 6% of the Rams' stock in his father's will, but he also got the power to run the day-to-day operations of the club. Young Steve promptly demoted General Manager Don Klosterman, considered by many experts to be one of the league's shrewdest executives, and put himself in charge of player personnel, picking draft choices and making trades. Widow Georgia, however, inherited 70% of the stock, and, determined...
Perhaps it is inevitable that whenever the arts broaden their appeal they will compromise their quality. If enough people tell us that Star Wars is a great movie we begin to question our own standards of taste. One has to shudder when a youngster today lumps Elvis Costello and The Bee Gees together with the Beatles and Beethoven as "great musicians," and wonder how many years until the latter two no longer make the list. Certainly the cultural elite will always recognize Beethoven's immortality, but if the 1970s taught any lesson, it was that economics is always the bottom...