Word: career
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Blackmun entered law school at Harvard only after seriously considering a medical career. He combined the two interests during the 1950s as resident counsel of the Mayo Clinic...
Noriega has not made many miscalculations during his career. The son of poor parents, he studied medicine for a year at Panama University. When he won a scholarship for studies at a military academy in Peru, he changed paths quickly. Upon graduation in 1962, the youth signed on with the Panama National Guard as a first lieutenant. He supported the 1968 coup that brought General Omar Torrijos to power. In 1970, after helping to quash a coup attempt against Torrijos, Noriega was made the head of Panama's intelligence services...
...raised eyebrows by propositioning Warren Beatty onscreen in Shampoo. At 21 she took her career cosmic by playing Princess Leia in Star Wars. Now Carrie Fisher, 30, is making waves again as a first-time novelist. Postcards from the Edge (Simon & Schuster; $15.95), due in bookstores next month, is a dark comedy about a troubled young actress named Suzanne Vale. Overwhelmed by money, men and success, Suzanne ends up in a drug- rehabilitation clinic feeling like "something on the bottom of someone's shoe, and not even someone interesting." Fisher, who is the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds...
...sell and an estate has merchandise to move, the date suddenly gets writ large. RCA has just released four compilations of Presley material with scrupulous "audio restoration": The Top Ten Hits, The Number One Hits and, most crucially, The Complete Sun Sessions, recorded at the start of his career, and The Memphis Record, recorded in 1969, when all the anger and antic experimentation of rock seemed to have left Elvis in the lurch. The 23 songs on The Memphis Record (never released all together until now) were originally conceived as a reassertion of Presley's primacy. In 1987 they sound...
...investigation, Rusty finds some people who are not Horgan's (or his) friends and who seem disinclined to hurry. And Rusty has an emotional tie to this case that he cannot reveal to any of his fellow professionals. Some months earlier, he had risked his career and his marriage of 17 years on a passionate affair with the murder victim. After a month or so, she jilted him and took up with Horgan...