Word: getter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leads are not the problem; they illuminate their roles. Fox, an icon of sunny impudence, plays a blend of his two most famous roles: the sassy kid from Family Ties and the cherubic go-getter in the Back to the Future trilogy. And Hurt, Hollywood's white-collar star, mines wit and pain from a static character. The actor can get wondrously glum when he plays a smart guy flummoxed by fate, which is why he should have been cast as the hero-victims in Presumed Innocent and The Bonfire of the Vanities. Instead he got The Doctor, whose style...
...course, everyone knows that occasional preferential treatment is inescapable; but when the beneficiary is a white male, we have a way of assuming that the basic ability exists, that in time the ambitious go-getter will grow into his unearned station. Even when qualifications are so slight (witness Dan Quayle) as to make a presumption of merit difficult, we tend to see the incident as an aberration in a system that by and large works the way it should...
...years, American society has been plagued by go-getter husbands who pursue wealth for the assumed good of the family while ignoring their childrens' emotional needs. But to imply that the House bill is the best way in which to institute parental leave and change social attitudes is presumptuous. Such legislation leaves businesses, especially smaller ones, little room for maneuvering...
...Eastern city of Cottbus that the two states would be joined in a currency union "as fast as possible." He pledged that individual East German savings accounts would be redeemed one for one in deutsche marks (the black market rate is 6 to 1) -- a guaranteed vote getter in the East, but one that will cost West Germans an estimated $100 billion...
...high-stakes marriage between television and sports. It did not take long for these two great American institutions to meet and tie the knot. But only recently did they fully realize how much they mean to each other. For the networks, sports programming is a surefire audience getter in an era of fractionalizing viewership. For sports, TV is the irresistible avenue to mass-audience popularity -- and almost unimaginable riches...