Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then there's the work. Some editors devote more time to the Crimson than to all their courses combined. Of course, not many people do this, and it's expected of no one. We only mention it to show how absorbing the work can be, if you give it the...
Helms must have done something to please Smith, for a year later the young radio newsman left Raleigh and WRAL for Washington to work on Smith's staff. After a year as an administrative aide, he was detached to help with Georgia Senator Richard Russell's doomed segregationist presidential campaign...
These frightening deficiencies are the result of a decade of neglect, following the winding down of the debilitating U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Increases in military spending fell below the rate of inflation from 1969 through '77, and nosed upward in real terms only slightly thereafter. This erosion of the...
Weinberger's predecessors tended to concentrate power in the Office of the Secretary, involving themselves in decisions at every level and running the Pentagon as if it were a small business. Like Reagan in the White House, Weinberger prefers to delegate, acting as chief executive of a big, diversified conglomerate...
Concluded he: "Good luck to them. Good luck to you." For now at least, Pepper shakes off any notions of retiring to devote his full energies to his new vocation. Says he: "I contemplated retiring, and I sort of tentatively fixed a date-the year 2000."