Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff members there will never forget his flair as a manager. Kennedy often wore shorts and a baseball cap to work and brought his dog Friday to the office. He furnished his corner office, which was on the same floor as the rest of the magazine, modestly. "It felt like a college newspaper," says the former staffer. "We were once on deadline, feverishly trying to get the magazine out, and he walked in and said, 'Let's go to the park and play touch football.' People were appalled, but they appreciated a gesture he made in the fall...
...time George Bush the Elder left the White House, you were tired of him and tired of Kennebunkport and tired of all those numbingly respectable Cabinet officers who looked as if they'd all gone to Andover together. And you were sick to death of that wretched dog. You were starting to miss the buccaneering days of the Reagan Administration, during which TIME once devoted several pages to mug shots of all the Reagan officials who'd had ethical or legal charges leveled against them--a layout that looked like the life insurance-company ads congratulating the leading salesmen...
...listening events also let Clinton demonstrate what she has been learning about the state's history and economy, its people and problems. Once or twice on each day of her tour, she showed off her prize stat the way a dog parades a bone: "If upstate New York were a separate state," she said, "it would rank 49th in job creation and economic development." And that's more than a stat--it's an indication of how she'll run against her probable opponent, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani...
Last week Rudy and Hillary kept their battered, tormented psyches under control, but how long can it be before she lashes out at the vast right-wing conspiracy and he lashes out at everyone else: food vendors he doesn't approve of, uncurbed dog owners, community gardens (sell 'em) and jaywalkers? But so long as his Inner Tyrant is dormant, Rudy is one photo op after another. As Hillary traveled the state "listening," the mayor never sat down or shut up. While she got away with answering a measly eight questions from reporters, Rudy was taking eight a minute...
...urban areas. So Iridium has been forced to rejigger its target audience from globe-trotting yuppies with big egos and bigger expense accounts to a decidedly different niche: mariners, oil-rig workers and the military. That glamour hemorrhage has turned Iridium?s once-$70 stock into a $6.75 dog. And the competition has come in droves ? companies like Ellipso, Vodafone and Teledesic (which wants to up the ante with an Internet-in-the-sky), arriving late, have benefited from improved technology and learned from Iridium?s mistakes. Meanwhile, the first star in the sky could well be the first...