Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to face the dormmates who had received their first choice--those whom I believed were thereby blessed with a perfect existence for the next three years. I could not share in their joy, and I did not want their pity. By the end of the day, if I heard one more "I'm sorry" from a well-meaning (or malicious) future River resident, I thought I would have to become violent...
...case, he notes, what drives him today is no longer the money ("It's not an economic issue") so much as the "fear of failure and the ego gratification of success. It's a way of expressing creative energy." Even if few people outside the business world have ever heard of your company...
...SEEN & HEARD...
...America," he says. "It clearly needs to be fixed, and we're doing that." Yet insiders say Arledge is more concerned than he lets on. Two months ago, at a regularly scheduled morning meeting in which the day's work plans are laid out, Arledge blew up when he heard that new White House correspondent John Donvan was unavailable to cover President Clinton that day because he was busy helping his family move. Arledge used it as an excuse to lecture the troops about complacency, citing as examples the established N.F.L. teams that had been beaten in the playoffs...
...palaver goes in the kind of bar that doesn't have ferns, the boozy, unchanging gab about sports, women and the System that defines the deep, edgy pessimism of blue- collar men. "Einstein" is what they call Billy, out of class respect and class resentment. But as shots are heard at the end, it is unclear whether he will make it back to law school...