Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, the remainder of Bork's four-year tenure at Justice could prove his biggest asset. Career and political appointees alike credit Bork with helping to restore morale at the shaken department. Despite antibusing sentiment in both the Nixon and Ford administrations, for example, Bork pointedly refused to oppose a controversial Boston school-desegregation order. "He was the epitome of an open-minded, principled lawyer," says A. Raymond Randolph, then a Bork aide, "the exact opposite of a rigid ideologue...
...agency's plan calls for a dramatic return to the banking business by A. Robert Abboud, former chairman of First Chicago and ex-president of Occidental Petroleum. Abboud, 58, known during a stormy 29-year career as an exacting boss, is spearheading a campaign to raise $500 million and gain control of First City, a holding company that operates 61 banks in Texas and one in South Dakota. Abboud, who will become chairman, is kicking in $5 million of his personal funds. His group, which had been conducting secret negotiations with the FDIC since November, beat out at least three...
Tadao Ando, 45, is the most influential figure among Japan's baby-boomer architects. Combative, ascetic, a radical traditionalist, he is the perfect maverick: after wandering across the U.S. in the '60s, he aspired to a professional boxing career before becoming an architect. He is something of a Zen zealot. He hates "automated buildings with all manner of electronic convenience." He hates posh materials. "Concrete, far cheaper than marble, can achieve a far greater spiritual sense of wealth," he says. Indeed, most of his 90 buildings are constructed of concrete. Ando is thus maintaining a tradition: large-scale modern buildings...
...Transportation had Sunday afternoon to herself. She left their Watergate apartment and drove to the National Cathedral. After pacing the quiet grounds, she headed for the chapel where she and Dole were married 13 years ago. Sitting on an outdoor bench, she reflected on her marriage and her career. "I couldn't help thinking back over the years, and all the experiences and joys," she recalls, a wistful tone creeping into her honeyed Southern accent. "This is a time now when, you know, I have to really come to that . . ." She trails off for a second, unable to utter...
...Dole's announcement is likely to disappoint career women who view her as a role model, and that bothers her. "It's not that you're giving up what you're doing," she offers. "It's that you're laying down one cause to take up another." For more than a year she had gently but stubbornly insisted that she could stay in public office and also campaign. When her husband rather tactlessly suggested last January that his wife would have to leave her job eventually, she sharply rebuked him. The Senator, who plans to announce his candidacy formally...