Word: gofers
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...Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean and took trips to the Bahamas on Hetrick's 46-ft. trawler, the Highland Fling, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Hetrick also owned five airplanes and a 53-ft. yacht, the Ivory. Arrington, said a former Morgan employee, was "a kind of super gofer" for Hetrick...
Directed by Sidney Pollack Screenplay by Kurt Luedtke omeone with no face and no name is trying to get me. And you're the gofer." The angry speaker is a man named Michael Gallagher. It is his misfortune to be the son and nephew of mobsters and to look as if he might be following in the family tradition under cover of managing an import business on the Miami waterfront. It is an impression that his dress, manner and accent do nothing to correct. The gofer under verbal assault is Megan Carter, and it is her misfortune...
...address and introduces himself to the photographer, a small, quiet-mannered Japanese woman named Nana Watanabe. There are two or three other women in the studio from Danskin, a manufacturer known for leotards and tights, for whom Watanabe is shooting a couple of catalogues. And here comes another gofer of some kind, a plain-faced, skinny young woman in big tortoise-shell glasses, a grungy raincoat and sneakers. She plops down at the makeup table, opens a big handbag that turns out to be a makeup case and, as the onlooker tells himself that he is an idiot, briskly begins...
...early months of Carter's quest for the presidency last year, Powell again was the only aide traveling with him, briefing reporters and still acting as gofer. Powell soon began to impress the national press corps with his authoritative access to the candidate and his relentless energy. When Harper's last winter was about to depict Carter as a liar, Powell rushed out a 22-page response that did not convince all reporters but certainly reached most of them before their copy of Harper...
...frank with Carter, whom other aides revere as being above criticism. Listening to Carter promise a crowd that his staff would not exercise power as arrogantly as Richard Nixon's, Powell scoffed, "He just lost my vote." But then no man is a hero to his gofer...