Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alone. "He had a preoccupation with leaks," recalls a senior staffer. Concern with maintaining firm control of the theatrics of the convention contributed to this security mania, but the primary cause was Bush's memories of the rumors that swept Detroit in 1980 as Reagan was pondering Bush's fate. As a top aide put it, "He was determined that no one be hurt...
...crowded hearing room at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an anxious crowd of activists--both pro-and anti-union--gathered this week to watch the duel of lawyers that will decide the fate of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW...
Failure rescued Tucker from that dismal fate. He has passed into popular history as a more interesting figure, at once heroic and cautionary: the little guy who dared to buck the big guys and got squished in the process. It is easy to see why he appealed to Coppola, who has been trying to put Tucker's story on the screen for something like a decade. It is not just simply that as a child Coppola was knocked out by a glimpse of the Tucker Torpedo at an auto show in the late '40s. It is rather that...
Furthermore, he just can't seem to find any job that suits him. Suzanne nags him to go to graduate school, but he is intimidated by her intellect. So he works as a phone repairman yet continually laments his fate and his inability to make the dreaded career choice...
...fate of Robert Bork, who himself fell victim to the Senate after a similarly brusing confirmation battle in which his conservative views were treated with the same contempt that once met Fortas' liberal ideas, lingers in the background of this biography. Murphy makes the connection explicit in his preface and his epilogue. But a crucial difference remains...