Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These breaks are a great transition from one piece of your career to another," says Evans, explaining that over the next few months he hopes to begin a book on the political and social shifts that have marked his political career...
...result of the gap between Harvard's predominantly case-based curriculum and those of other major business schools, B-School doctoral students often find that their alma mater is the only option for a career in business academia. Many B-School professors completed their doctoral study at Harvard; but at other schools, fewer Harvard MBA's join the faculty ranks. Harvard students' excellence in case research is unquestioned, say other business school professors, but their potential for scholarship in a non-case atmosphere is limited...
...which high drama, as well as low comedy, is often made. John Tower had served on the powerful Armed Services Committee for 20 years, four of them as its strong-willed chairman. Now a majority of former colleagues blocked his efforts to climb one more rung in his distinguished career. Moreover, and perhaps most demeaning, they ostensibly turned against him because of questions about his life-style, although his professional activities also worried them...
...Nunn declared that Tower's "record of alcohol abuse cannot be ignored" and that he could find no evidence that the nominee had sought help to correct it. Nunn also judged some of the Texan's conduct with women to have been "indiscreet." Once again, a man's public career had been indelibly tainted by reckless personal behavior...
Forget for a moment that Jerome Robbins is one of the pivotal figures in Broadway history and that the gala onstage is a summing up of his invaluable career. For audiences who know what came after, how entertaining is this journey to the bottom of Robbins' trunk? If Broadway is not making 'em the way it used to, should we be regretful? Or relieved? If neither revivals from Broadway's heyday nor imitations of that style lead to commercial success, then does this logical next step, a greatest-hits compendium, offer much hope...