Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pose for Hart: he did it as George McGovern's campaign manager in 1972 and as a new breed of maverick candidate in 1984. As in his personal life, he tries to live above the accepted rules. Now he has embarked on the most daring odyssey of a public career built entirely on risk, and the political power structure looks on in % horror and asks...
...when he is an outsider, he is part of the problem -- an implacable obstructionist." Warnke argues that Nitze illustrates a corollary to Lord Acton's famous adage: "Power corrupts, but the loss of power corrupts absolutely." Nitze rejects and resents the charge: "On a number of occasions in my career I have quit jobs when I disagreed with policy. I'm not just interested in being part of the Government; I'm interested in the Government being right...
Middle-class battered women are likely to suffer their plight in dutiful silence. Says Psychologist Mary Donahue of Rockville, Md.: "Often this is the quintessential good girl, bright, with some education, overprotected and without a particular career path." Generally such women give themselves over to their spouse's needs, subsuming their identities to their husband's -- and often losing their self-esteem in the process. Invariably they blame themselves for their mate's abusive behavior. Once, when her physician-husband smacked her across the face, Amy, 30, of Brooklyn, N.Y., remembers saying, "Honey, let me give you a doughnut. Maybe...
...wide chestnut-paneled music room from a turn-of-the-century house in Southampton, N.Y. Cost: $30,000. Antique porcelain bathtubs, which can fetch $1,500 each, are the most popular items. Daniel Kasle, 34, the company's affable chief operating officer, who gave up a lucrative career as a foreign-exchange trader to indulge his passion for old sidewalk grates and theater seats, gives the stuff an uptown moniker. He calls it "high-end architecturals for adaptive reuse...
Former CIA Director Richard Helms, barred from associating with powerful Communists for his entire career, gripped the Gorbachev hand and said, "I never expected to meet a General Secretary of the Communist Party." Gorbachev broke into a grin, and for that second, perhaps, was as amazed as Helms...