Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, it was, as Captain Penelope Papailias said "the worst day of my fencing career." The swordswomen fell to Columbia, 15-1, Saturday in Manhattan...
Scholars both here and elsewhere havecriticized Harvard for allowing a highlyrecognized psychiatrist to resign in disgrace forwhat they see as a minor flaw in an otherwisedistinguished career...
Rarely has the description "statesman" seemed so appropriate. In his long career, however, Urquhart represented no single state but rather every nation on the globe. During a 41-year career as a senior U.N. official, rising to the rank of Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, Urquhart, 69, found himself in the middle of virtually every major international crisis. Though he retired 2 1/2 years ago, Urquhart will be in the delegation that will travel to Oslo next week to receive the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the U.N. for its peacekeeping missions in Lebanon, Cyprus, Afghanistan...
...Your father was an artist, yet you have had a career in diplomacy...
British agent Bernard Samson proved himself a good candidate for early retirement in Len Deighton's trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match. Samson's career was not advanced by his wife Fiona's defection to the Soviet Union or by the unreliability of the KGB operative Samson had enticed to the West. And, to top it off, field-wise Bernard found himself ill-suited to maneuvering inside the bureaucracy at London headquarters...