Word: exemplar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...savings account to make a down payment on 300 acres in Talbotton Ga. about 90 miles south of Atlanta, planted his mobile home on the ocher earth and moved in with his wife Judy, then 23 and one small daughter. Since then, he has become an exemplar of another type of Southerner: the small farmer who clings to the land even though he can barely scratch a living out of it Frix' s farm today has shrunk to about 100 acres ("We didn't have a choice; it was sell part or lose it all"); his family...
From such various activities, it is easy to see that Josiah Wedgwood not only gets what he wants but that his wants are conceived on a very grand scale. They have served to make him one of the richest manufacturers in England and an exemplar of the modern type of merchant. Yet he was born to relative poverty 46 years ago, the 13th and youngest child of a potter in Staffordshire. His schooling ended at the age of eight, when his father died, and he had to go to work as an apprentice in a pottery run by an older...
Though Brown, 38, regards himself as the exemplar of a new generation in politics, his strategy had old-fashioned aspects. He eagerly embraced every stop-Carter machine politician who offered help, notably Governor Marvin Mandel and Baltimore County Executive Ted Venetoulis. Observing that Carter also welcomed organization support, Brown quipped, "You've heard the old biblical expression, In my father's house there are many machines...
...overly harsh: the new bankers promoted more economic growth than the legendary gimlet-eyed banker of old, who would grant a loan only to a borrower who could prove that he did not need one. That, at least, is the central argument of Walter Wriston, the strongest champion and exemplar of the new banking. Under Wriston, Citibank has led in international expansion, computerization and the use of large CDs, and it was one of the first to appreciate the diversification possibilities of holding companies. (Citibank today is officially a subsidiary of Citicorp, a holding company also headed by Wriston, which...
...resort in California's Mineral King valley, 16,000 acres of national forest land high in the southern Sierra Nevada. Controversy erupts, fueled by the public's revived awareness of environmental abuse. Behind the contested $35-40 million project is not ITT but the corporation created by a childhood exemplar of the Leave-It-to-Beaver generation--the father of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck, Walt Disney. Thus fell another idol of Maynard's generation...