Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted, whether it was drugs or free love or simply the freedom to be what one wanted to be. The seventies were dawning dark and troubled, for the Stones and for their fans. It would be necessary to come to grips with radically reduced expectations, to forget about casual wanting and get down to basic necessities. You'd better figure out what your real needs are and go out after them, the Stones seemed to be saying, and even that might not be so easy: "If you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need." This...
...story of security agents and protective apparatus as much as what Presidents and Prime Ministers do and say. No more yarns about "the sinister black briefcase" carrying nuclear codes, or the "android image" of the Secret Service, or how agents switch revolver style when they change clothes from casual (Smith & Wesson Model 10) to formal (Walther PPK), or the press "baying for names and quotes." Unfortunately, the prose that would result would be far more prosaic. The sense of pomp and ceremony and history would be sacrificed. But by taking refuge in an electronic cocoon, those who run the world...
...ordering his station chiefs in Europe to look for Afghan exiles who might make good recruits. The CIA men began by poring over lists of students and teachers, compiling dossiers on likely candidates and placing them under surveillance. Those who seemed thoroughly reliable and unquestionably pro-mujahedin received casual invitations to lunch from a visiting American professor, or a priest, perhaps, or even a Saudi businessman. All were undercover CIA agents. While the CIA was recruiting some 50 such Afghans in Europe, it was also, with help from the FBI, gathering a similar group in the U.S. Though most...
...greatest impression on me and my later career. He was my tutor, Francis Wayne MacVeagh. Although he never gained the fame of such contemporaries as Robert Hillyer and Theodore Spencer, he guided me to a true and lasting love of fine writing and he did it by the casual and then unconventional method of simply spreading a dozen or more books in front of me, saying. "Take them along, read any that interest you and ignore the rest. "From Francis learned to love oddities like Tristram Shandy's My Uncle Toby and to enjoy the wit and wisdom of Henry...
...more money and dramatically reduces our pool of applicants. The Council needs quality help. The job was not too little for Stan Butler, our previous employee, who had extended office experience and numerous degrees. So this brings us to option 3, the one which we currently follow--hire a casual employee (Staff Assistant II) on the University payscale. This requires us to pay on the University payscale (minimum pay $6.93) and follow University guidelines (17 maximum paid hours)--regardless of whether he is a student or not. And certainly we cannot advertise a position as Staff Assistant II, decide...