Word: careers
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...does being on 30 Rock compare with being on Saturday Night Live? -Declan Murphy, Manassas, Va. Saturday Night Live is the hardest thing I ever did in my career. Period. If you can survive Saturday Night Live, then you're good as far as show business is concerned. My ex-wife, she was considered a widow because I was never home. You had one day off, and that was Sunday...
...sensitivity of Kentucky coal-mine operators. In ensuing labor agreements, the owners not only imposed a salary cap but also made most of the players indentured servants. In the NFL there are two positions: stars and parts. Teams discard broken parts, which is why the average playing career is just a couple of years, leaving behind hundreds of wrecked bodies. Once a player become less useful, his contract, like his bones, can be broken. (See TIME's top 10 sports comebacks...
...quiet but tenacious leader, Reid has built his career on building consensus - cajoling members and sweetening deals with pet projects. The right disparages him for his occasional gaffes. He is often condemned by progressives for not calling Republicans' bluffs on threatened filibusters and rarely, if ever, using his 60-seat majority to ram through legislation. "I'm not so sure we have very many sticks available to us," says Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Reid. Reid is "an expert at the gentle art of persuasion. The members of his caucus see him as an honest broker and a straight...
Scales’ first-quarter touchdown was the first of his career, and it wasn’t long before he added his second. Scales struck again in the fourth quarter, this time at a more crucial moment in the contest...
...probably don’t get a lot of style points [Saturday],” said Crimson coach Tim Murphy, who earned his 100th career win with Harvard with the victory. “But again, when our back was to the wall in the second half, we responded with a lot of grit and found a way to finish a very, very tough, aggressive, hard-nosed Cornell football team...