Word: errand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deep, and they have been exacerbated by the flamboyant way Iacocca has gone % about raising the millions of dollars, tapping schoolchildren and major corporations alike. In personalizing the project, he ran roughshod over the Park Service and its green-uniformed rangers, according to some critics, reducing them to errand boys for the foundation and the commission. Said Park Service Spokesman George Berklacy after Iacocca was fired: "The rangers were bleeding green with happiness this morning. The Secretary's action was a tremendous morale boost...
...nearby farm. Goody had won a $6,000 judgment from Burr's son in a land dispute; there was a score to settle. Burr shot the younger man in the face, leaving his corpse in the snow between two hog feeders. Just then Goody's wife, returning from an errand, drove up in a truck with their six-year-old son. Horrified, she gunned the engine and fled; Burr fired but missed...
...than serve as professional mourners. They chair important interagency committees, participate in overseas diplomatic missions, act as senior White House advisors--and nine of them have moved into the Oval Office. The blind loyalty traditionally demanded of the Vice President is appropriate when he is little more than an errand boy. Today, though such unquestioned loyalty is unfitting and dangerous as the vice presidency increasingly becomes more of an assistant presidency...
Everyone always says that rugged individualism is the backbone, and the jawbone, of America; that a country as grand and sturdy as this could only have been built by the self-propelled and self-interested strivings of wild-eyed nonconformists, each fur-laden Daniel Boone pursuing his independent errand into the wilderness. The term is fairly precise. More aggressive than mere individuality, less narcissistic than the "me" decade, it does not refer to people who live in health clubs or on roller skates, or to the hotly cultivated yuppies who have come to mean so much to themselves. The "rugged...
...Wallace, 36, a true political junkie who worked his first convention in 1964 as Cronkite's errand boy, being a floor reporter is "the most intense experience you can have." In 1980, Wallace scooped the other networks, albeit by seconds, on the choice of George Bush as Ronald Reagan's running mate, and that coup helped win him a job as NBC's White House correspondent. At the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, he screened out rivals from an exclusive interview with Joan Mondale by having his crew and her aides form a human fence. Last week...