Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preparing for the assignment. Correspondent David Aikman traveled to points as diverse as Austria, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, tracking down men and women who have known Gorbachev personally. Correspondent John Kohan embarked on a similar search in the Soviet Union, visiting Stavropol, where Gorbachev began his political career. The result is a rare glimpse into the private life of an ostensibly public man. Since 1927, when Aviator Charles Lindbergh became TIME's first Man of the Year, that honor has by definition gone to the person who has most influenced the year's events, for good or ill. Gorbachev...
Ever since, Bruce Edward Babbitt has made a remarkable career of being underestimated by his political opponents. His wife once described him as a "shy, skinny intellectual with little public-speaking ability." Yet he pushed himself through successful campaigns for student president of Notre Dame, attorney general and Governor of Arizona and now, at age 49, into the biggest race...
Professionally, Williams looks to keep on flooring it over those cones. He may soon take the reins of his movie career and write himself a script. Next fall he plans to play Estragon, with Steve Martin as Vladimir, in the Mike Nichols production of Waiting for Godot -- thus synthesizing Juilliard and wackiness. Personally, however, Williams is quieter, more settled. He is past bouts of alcohol and cocaine dependence. Separated from his wife of nine years, he now keeps company with his personal secretary, Marsha Garces. And he is famously devoted to his four-year-old son Zachary...
...young career seeker of either sex, money is a draw. Salaries can run + from $20,000 to $35,000 a year, plus generous tips. Providing such routine services as travel arrangements, sight-seeing tours, secretaries, translators and after-hours tailors and florists brings in respectable gratuities. Prestidigitation -- securing tickets to a sold-out play-off game or making last-minute reservations at the hottest restaurant -- can earn a hefty $100. Gifts from satisfied guests are not uncommon. "I never have to do any Christmas shopping," says Bettye Bradley, 61, of the Grand Hotel in Washington. "All I have...
...traditional-style marriage was expected, among other things, to buttress Bhutto's image as a "normal" Pakistani woman. Still, some allies were concerned that the union with Zardari, a onetime playboy, could damage Bhutto's political career. Not so, averred Bhutto, who added, "I'd certainly like to have a family...