Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be more thrilling to say that the Crimson men's basketball team won this game with a blazing fast break, a barrage of three-pointers and a storm of thunderous dunks, but the truth is that Harvard defeated Yale with textbook free-throw shooting and old-fashioned hard work...
...share and express feelings with people you can trust." Besides providing a support group where people can pray together and confide personal problems, these weekly gatherings usually focus on Bible studies. "Calling yourself a Christian without reading the Bible is like calling yourself an engineer without reading the textbook," says Susan Baker, a born-again Episcopalian. (Her husband, the Secretary of State, was formerly a regular at a Capitol Hill gathering...
Project STAR, a novel program now offered in 13 states, uses the heavens as a textbook to teach students about math and science principles...
...celebrating Sir Francis Drake, His Daring Deeds (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12.95). So is Roy Gerrard, who imaginatively charts the rise of Britain's supersailor from cabin boy to conqueror of the Spanish Armada. Although the author-illustrator employs rhymed couplets and a suite of exuberant watercolors, he is textbook-true to history, pageantry, royalty and, most important, the man who "took his leave, with sails unfurled,/ to circumnavigate the world...
...they take effect, the Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco deals may prove to be textbook cases of smart corporate strategies. They could also turn out to be flops -- or so U.S. business history would suggest. In the 1960s some of America's most celebrated executives, including Harold Geneen at ITT and Charles Thornton at Litton Industries, acquired scores of companies and built huge conglomerates. Like many empires, they eventually declined. A similar fate may await some of today's dealmakers...