Word: counselors
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...speech titled "Reagan, Bush & Aristotle," Pinkerton, who also served as a counselor for the Bush-Quayle campaign, focused on what he said was overwhelming conservatism in society...
...expertise on military matters so impressed his colleagues that he beat out two contenders, including the chairman, for the top job in 1985. He promptly showed his shrewd, dealmaking side by setting up what is euphemistically called the Member Services group on his staff. Aide Larry Smith, now counselor-designee at the Pentagon, ran what was really an old-fashioned political pork operation, assuring committee members that their interests would be looked after in exchange for their vote on committee affairs. Committee members who went along got along. Those who crossed him, like former Representative Albert Bustamante, found their...
Simple numbers, hard consequences -- how does a school decide what stays, what goes? In the past two years, the Hayward district canceled a program that provided 34 specially trained teachers to help students who have reading problems. But it held on to six counselors, in part because of an outcry from parents who feared their children would not have guidance to make judgments about college and careers. Even six seemed too few to students puzzling over their prospects. "We have a million decisions to make, and there's no one here to talk to," complains Jared Mariconi, a senior. Mary...
...with him. Then he brought his friends over and said she had to have sex with them too. She didn't want to, but she figured maybe this is what you have to do to be popular in high school." So the girl submitted, recalls Cowger, 17, a peer counselor at the high school in Lakewood, California. She sympathized with the younger girl's dilemma: "These were the popular guys...
...usually a tale about dried-up movie roles or a career on the downswing. The latest actress to come crawling back is Shelley Long, who left Cheers six years ago for a movie career that has gone nowhere. In GOOD ADVICE (CBS, debuting April 2), she plays a marriage counselor whose sunny outlook is dashed when she discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. In the usual sitcom way, her real family is at the office, where she shares quarters, oddly, with a bald-headed chiropractor and an aggressive divorce lawyer (Treat Williams -- boy, this is sad). Long...