Word: albatross
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will resign as the President prepares for his second term. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Defense Secretary William Perry and Chief of Staff Leon Panetta are all leaving voluntarily. Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, whose expensive jaunts overseas and hiring of investigators to monitor reporters have made her an albatross, was given a clear message to pack her bags, according to the Associated Press. She is expected to announce her decision publicly within the next few days. Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, who replaced the late Ron Brown earlier this year, has offered his resignation as well, possibly as a move...
...higher. But that's not all. The huge company faces a number of other problems, including the need to restructure the enormously complex cable system business, reducing or eliminating duplicating work in the post-merger world, and of course focusing once and for all on how the remove the albatross of $17.5 billion worth of debt. But perhaps the most immediate concern is whether Time Warner and Turner can successfully combine their disparate corporate cultures. TBS, through its flamboyant leader, has something of a risk-taking personality, while under the more introspective and cautious Levin, Time Warner has shown itself...
Last week intrepid birders--they don't call themselves bird watchers anymore--were combing western Washington and southwestern British Columbia in pursuit of, among other species, the black-footed albatross and crested myna. Or they were in southeastern Arizona, stalking the violet-crowned hummingbird and sulphur-bellied flycatcher, all the while praying for a glimpse of the rare eared trogon...
...continued, at least through the Games in Atlanta. After which those unearthly world records of Janet Evans, set way back in 1988 and '89, may have been broken. Or, as seems more likely, they will be someone else's albatross...
...matter of late night, it turns out that Littlefield wasn't so dumb after all. NBC may have had some last-minute qualms that Leno would be a big-chinned albatross, but his Tonight Show is now whipping Letterman soundly in the ratings. As for the rest of NBC's fortunes, Littlefield, 43, has confounded critics, who regarded him as something of an empty suit--a protege of NBC programming whiz Brandon Tartikoff who inherited Tartikoff's No. 1 schedule in 1990 and quickly let it slide to third place. Littlefield has not only kept his job for nearly...