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...undergraduate community is a much better place than what I sensed it was in the mid-'80s. A lot of black students didn't feel comfortable," Daniels says. "Things needed to change...
...sessions. And, often in partnership with Junior Leagues, it runs public-education programs throughout the country, exposing business and community leaders to the problems of the young. In the mid-1980s, the Children's Defense Fund helped focus national attention on the problem of teen pregnancy. In the late '80s, it put together a coalition that was instrumental in the 1990 passage of a multibillion-dollar child-care bill for low-income working parents...
From those confrontations emerged a pecking order of corporate responsibility defined around the concept of stakeholders. These stakeholders include the shareholders--the owners of the company--as well as employees, suppliers, customers and local communities. But in the '80s some of these stakes were crushed in the machinery of mergers or restructuring. Cities lost powerful corporate allies, that were relegated to subsidiary status by headquarters in distant places. In industries such as textiles and steel, plant shutdowns destroyed forever the notion that the company takes care of its own. Steel towns in Pennsylvania, like Duquesne, collapsed when their blast furnaces...
...McInerney could have spent the rest of his career rewriting Bright Lights, Big City, a well-observed comic novel that caught a generational updraft and became either The Catcher in the Rye of the '80s or the Trout Fishing in America of the '80s, depending on your estimation (I would come down somewhere in between). His subsequent books didn't stray far from the urban high life, but with his fifth novel McInerney aims to limber up and take on something more ambitious...
...face he painted on his hand, moving thumb and index finger to simulate a mouth. Born Wenceslao Moreno, he imitated voices as a child. He worked as an amateur bullfighter but, after being gored repeatedly, took up circus juggling. Later his ventriloquist act achieved worldwide fame. In his mid-80s he appeared on the Muppet Show and Late Night With David Letterman; he also toured briefly in the musical Sugar Babies...