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Many educators hope that TFA's unorthodox approach will boost the low status of the profession and help alleviate the growing teacher shortage. According to the American Federation of Teachers, U.S. schools will have to hire 1.8 million new teachers by 1997. The need is especially acute in inner cities and rural communities, precisely the areas TFA serves. "Without programs like ! this," says New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez, "we are never going to resolve pipeline issues related to attracting the very best and brightest to our profession...
...KERREY Smitten by his new publicity, the Nebraskan is quietly asking friends if they would help run a 1992 campaign. A charismatic Vietnam Medal of Honor winner, could he be the Ailes-proof candidate...
...pipe fitter from a working-class suburb of Paris, Tapie carried sacks of coal as a youngster to help pay the family's rent. He graduated from a second-rate engineering school rather than from one of the grandes ecoles that train France's business and bureaucratic elite. For a decade, he has been challenging the country's risk-averse Establishment; his specialty is reviving troubled companies in niche industries. Tapie once had a popular TV show on which he preached, "Create companies and earn big money through entrepreneurship." The program was unabashedly named Ambition, and his best- selling book...
Reassurance that Tapie's deal is for real also came from American entrepreneur Peter Ueberroth, whose Contrarian Group last year assumed managerial control and part ownership of Adidas' U.S. operations. Ueberroth met Horst Dassler in 1979 and with his help and advice transformed the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles into the first one ever to make a profit. Ueberroth has already staunched Adidas' U.S. losses, and in May he flew to Paris for a first meeting with Tapie. Ueberroth said last week he was "impressed with Tapie's global vision" and ability to give slipping companies new energy...
...weakness has caused many companies to put away their help-wanted signs. U.S. firms created only 660,000 new jobs in the first half of the year, a 50% drop from the first six months of 1989. The dearth of new positions was matched by a corresponding decline in the number of job seekers. In a worrisome trend, 900,000 discouraged people stopped looking for work in the second quarter, an increase of 20% over the previous three months...