Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democratic Senator Joe Biden, on CNN's Larry King Live, wondered if relentless interrogation along personal lines would "make politics like a circus." Emphasized Biden, whose strong family life has been a political asset for years: "I don't have anything to worry about in the sense that there is a culpable act in my background or that I have a promiscuous life- style...
...Hart had one asset that was never mobilized until it was too late: the spunky loyalty of his wife. Lee Hart was one of the first people the candidate phoned when he learned of the Herald story late Saturday night. Her friend Sally Henkel recalls that Lee's immediate reaction was "concern with the story and the journalistic ethics involved." According to another friend who was with her during the early days of the ordeal, she never expressed any anger or disappointment in her husband. Other visitors to the house on Troublesome Gulch Road expected her to behave like...
...Michael J. Fox, who stars as Brantley Foster in The Secret of My Success. The film resembles a financial fantasy from the mind of Alex P. Keaton, Fox's Family Ties character, with Brantley blasting up the corporate ladder in a relative nanosecond. With creativity as his only asset, Brantley parlays his way from the mailroom to the boardroom of his uncle's conglomerates...
Boss: Son, we at "Peter's Piping Hot Pizza, Inc." need someone like you to hang out and eat pizza all day in order to help us detect any lapses in quality. We are dedicated to producing the finest product, and we think you would be an invaluable asset to the team...
...strange," Silber wrote, "that this Administration, which has campaigned on the issue of bringing fiscal realism to Government, does not see that spending on education is not consumption but investment. A dollar well spent on education is a dollar spent in developing our country's most important capital asset: intelligence...