Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Those around him learned to keep their distance. Persico describes relationships clearly signaling that one did not work for Rockefeller but served him. There were 80-hour work weeks, Sunday night staff meetings, and one session at which the Governor had to be cautiously reminded that it was Christmas Eve. His office superlatives had to be adjusted for inflation. Persico's revaluation: " 'You're fantastic'-B-plus. 'You're the greatest'-C. 'Thanks loads'-start considering new employment...
They were a group of 81 riotous and impetuous youths who entered Harvard College that Autumn. In the first days, "everything proceeded peaceably and in order," reported one student, but four years later the class was to face off in a Great Rebellion, ending on the eve of Commencement with the expulsion of more than half its ranks...
Such drastic administrative actions might have halted further misbehavior in the senior class, virtually on the eve of graduation. But always dedicated and rebellious, and never acting with moderation, the class of 1823 became angrier, more intent on revenge...
...before any such help arrived, it looked as if the Reagan Administration was going to have to fight a war of its own, this one of the propaganda variety. As the guerrillas certainly knew, their attack came on the eve of a certification procedure by President Reagan that is needed to unlock $26 million in military aid and $40 million in economic assistance for El Salvador in 1982. Concerned over the Central American country's appalling human rights record, one of the worst in the Western Hemisphere, Congress last December decided to attach special conditions to the assistance money...
President Horner last fall lobbied for Senate approval of the sale of AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia, co-signing a confidential telex on the eve of a crucial Senate vote that strongly urged a handful of wavering senators to cast their votes for the sale "in the best interests of the United States...