Word: awol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stan Evans traces an arc in Quayle's career of rising (if belatedly) to expectations. The angle of the arc must now go up, dramatically. Quayle was born not only roughly a quarter-century after any preceding President; he spent another quarter-century blissfully AWOL from history. His press secretary, David Beckwith, calls the Vice President a "classic late bloomer" -- which means that the first three decades or so of his life do not matter, just the last decade. That is starting late even for a faster learner than Quayle has given evidence of being. How can he "rise...
...money to rescue a deal. He was fired and then joined Drexel, where he advised buyout king Henry Kravis in his $25 billion takeover of RJR-Nabisco. When Burrough confronted Beck about his tales, the Wall Streeter denied telling most of them. Now Beck has apparently gone AWOL. Drexel, which received his resignation in the mail three weeks ago, says it has been unable to get in touch with...
...afternoons. Johnson's complaints against Buckey grew increasingly bizarre. She accused him of sodomizing her son while he stuck the boy's head in a toilet, making him ride naked on a horse and tormenting him with an air tube. She made similar accusations against her estranged husband, an AWOL Marine, and three health-club employees. Nevertheless, prosecutors presented Johnson as their first witness at a preliminary hearing in July...