Word: burnouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STEVE EARLE: COPPERHEAD ROAD (Uni). Songs of sorrow and defiance: a rock- inflected, country-based album that takes long chances with big themes, from the ghosts of Viet Nam to romantic burnout, and does them proud...
...Pennzoil has so far spent at least $20 million in its legal bouts with Texaco, which in turn has spent several times that amount. Pennzoil, ominously enough, has built up a $300 million legal kitty to carry on the fray. Says the pugnacious Liedtke: "If they want to play burnout, it will be a while...
...chastened President, causing him to listen to more moderate advisers and tilt toward compromises. But if he is to act rather than react, the President badly needs to put forward some bold new proposals. After six years in office, however, his Administration is showing telltale signs of creative burnout. Its early initiatives -- cutting taxes, pressing deregulation and launching an expensive U.S. military buildup, for example -- have been largely completed. White House strategists can think of very little that might restore a sense of drive and purpose. "We've accomplished a lot," says a staffer. "What's left is the merchandise...
...they are increasingly concerned about the high rate of turn-over in their ranks. Minority faculty members estimate that in the past six years, 43 per cent of their fellow lawyers have left the teaching profession altogether. They cite the increasing hostility from students and faculty--and the burnout from the excessive demands on their time--as probable reasons for their colleagues' departures...
...customary in a Le Carre novel, the odor of moral fatigue and middle-age burnout cling to every page. But Magnus' betrayals also smell of the cradle and the grave. His acts of treason are not rooted in greed or politics. They are delayed rebellions not only against a criminal father but against a system that appears only slightly better. "You have a lawyer's training, you have Czech language and Czech expertise," a personnel bureaucrat tells a reassigned spy. "More appropriately you have a thoroughly sleazy mind. Apply it . . . We expect terrible things of you." This sort of thing...