Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...character appeared straight. The only time he acted otherwise was when he went to bed with Michael Ontkean, who played another all-American. Though Hamlin's credentials as a heterosexual were beyond dispute -- he was living at the time with sexy Ursula Andress -- his realistic characterization cast his career into a gloom that was lifted only...
...directed him in Raw, shrugs off the tattle. "If he was alone on a mountaintop reading books about Howard Hughes, I'd worry. But Eddie's no prisoner. He's very social." Nor, he adds, has stardom soured Murphy's work. "Comedy is, after all, timing. And with his career, Eddie's timing has been solid gold...
...many qualified Japanese seem reluctant to take jobs with international groups lest they slip a rung on the competitive career ladder at home. Though Japan buys about half the bonds issued by the World Bank, for example, few Japanese can be found in key positions there. The Japanese Finance Ministry, in fact, has been forced to set quotas of young staffers that Japanese banks must send to such international institutions...
...temporary post at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Not as hard as it sounds, since the school offers a wide array of fellowships for mid-career bureaucrats and displaced politicians. The nameplates along the corridors (Joseph Nye, Al Carnesale, Robert Murray, Robert Reich, Graham Allison) read like a government-in-exile, and old articles are being recycled daily into speech drafts...
Trying to combine a family life with a career, many women choose entrepreneurship as a way of gaining some control over their schedules. Phyllis Gillis, for example, quit her night job as a waitress in 1982 and started Entrepreneurial Communications, a Princeton public relations firm, so that she could spend more time with her six-year-old son. Says Gillis, author of the 1984 book Entrepreneurial Mothers: "I was willing to spin my wheels for a while and grow my company slowly while my son was small. Now it's full speed ahead...