Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's the first surprise, how the subject of Jimmy has vanished like dew. It is literally true that in four days of engaging random citizens and family relations in casual conversation, I never heard the President mentioned until I brought him up. The silence didn't seem a result of gloom, and certainly not of shame or humiliation. Billy's breakfast hangout, the Best Western Inn of Americus, did list crow on the menu of Nov. 5; but that's only consistent with the air of amused and stoic relief that greeted all my inquiries...
...asking $6 million for, among other things, the damage done to her reputation when she was fired. There is also the prospect that action might be brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is examining the possibility that ABC has violated obligations to its stockholders with its casual accounting procedures...
...offense. As in none. Those 1979 booters had been shut out in each of the last five games, and as any casual soccer fan will tell you, you can't win games without goals...
Although he wrestled in half the varsity matches as a Yardling, Oberg, a three time Connecticut State High School wrestling champion, decided to devote himself to rugby. "It offers a different outlook on sport," he said. "Rugby's casual, without any pressure from a coach or alumni. The social aspect (weekend roadtrips to away games, the annual "pig roast," and kegs after games) almost equals the competitive element," Oberg adds; "My rugby experience has reallybeen the people met and the friendships made...
Despite all the jokes, like most of his colleagues Klein takes his work most seriously. One senses the frustrations and ambitions that lie just beneath the casual demeanor. The concerns with the power structure of Hollywood. And concerns with another kind of power structure: government, politics. Though he has fairly bandoned the political humor and satire that was so much a part of his repertoire during the Watergate era, he hasn't stopped caring...