Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they are husband and wife. The marriage caps a period of consolidation in Kennedy's life. After he left his job as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan in 1993, he seemed to drift. But his upstart political magazine George (a year old with the October 1966 issue) is doing respectably both in content and, it appears, as a business. The next step after getting a job was to find a woman to marry, and Kennedy has settled this matter as well, finding someone chic, canny and appealing. Having established himself in these ways, Kennedy is in a position...
...they are. There is no shortage of jilted husbands out there. As Manhattan divorce lawyer Eleanor Alter, who represented Mia Farrow in her proceedings against Woody Allen, puts it, "In most divorces, the fault is not so unequal. Two people have a drink together and they misbehave. Two people drift apart. These aren't heinous things. That's life...
...admit that my first impression of HYPE '96 was not a very favorable one. I was rudely awakened early Saturday morning to the sound of hammering and upon peering out of Winthrop House noticed that a large stage was being built right underneath my window. I was able to drift back to sleep for a little while, only to be awakened again by a repeated test of a very powerful audio system. My roommates and I--and no doubt countless dorm inhabitants around us--cursed and spat for a while and decided that if we had anything to do with...
...each state to distribute to the poor (along with some state funds) under guidelines intended to prod state and local authorities to prod the clients into finding jobs: generally a two-year limit on payments for any one stretch of time, and five years' lifetime for those who drift on and off welfare rolls...
...organizing campaign with the civil rights "Freedom Summer" of 1964 [BUSINESS, July 15]. Labor unions are a dinosaur. In the first part of the century they were a necessary evil, but they are no longer needed. The AFL-CIO should accept the fact that it is an anachronism and drift quietly into obscurity. Unions, while preaching the altruistic intent of helping the low-skilled worker, actually cause fewer jobs suitable for such workers to be created. ELIJAH C. MARENTETTE Boston