Word: careerist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their bond now was perhaps as strong as it would ever be. They were a pair of anti-careerist Ivy League grads united by their love of the outdoors--and also, frankly, by their failure at romantic love. David had been only slightly more successful with women than Ted. He had already decided that there was only one woman he could ever love--her name was Linda Patrik--and though they had a few dates during college, things didn't work...
...been to Japan like Whitney's been to Japan, like Tina [Turner]'s been to Japan, like Diana Ross has been to Japan." Impact is everything. It's at moments like these that one sees another side of Brandy, a shrewdly ambitious side. She may lack the blunt careerist lust of, say, Celine Dion, but her gaze is just as focused on global stardom. TV movies are just an initial step. Watch out, Tokyo...
Kate Gulden (Meryl Streep) is the kind of woman who gives surprise costume parties for her husband's birthday, is worried about her careerist daughter's lack of culinary skills and spends far too much time with like-minded ladies making sure the town Christmas trees are suitably decorated. She is, in short, the kind of person no one, including her loved ones, takes very seriously--until she begins dying before her time...
Today's female golfer is likely to be a full-time careerist who sees the green as an extension of her office. "I have got lots of new customers as a result of playing golf," says Lois Rice, 59, an executive vice president of Wells Fargo Bank in Los Angeles. A survey this year by the Executive Women's Golf Association in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., found that its 13,000 members had an average salary of $78,325. Nearly 60% of respondents held upper-management positions with major corporations. Almost 30% owned their own business...
Sonic Youth has never tried to be an arena-filling band. By quietly and resolutely continuing to make its own fiercely avant-garde, unabashedly personal music, it has created a space for itself. While many careerist bands lie gasping for air, Sonic Youth swims on, looking for deeper, uncharted waters...