Word: hecticly
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...good as her tantalizing opening words, Margaret goes on to recount an extremely hectic four or so weeks in her life. For openers, her six-year marriage to Adrian, 20 years her senior and the chaplain at a nearby experimental school for troubled youths, seems to be foundering. He is depressed, overburdened with work--filling in for the headmaster-founder who has recently died--and physically inattentive. Then there is Tony, an old man in a monk's habit who appears at the rectory requesting lodging. Next comes Chase, a teenager at Adrian's school who was expelled...
...panelists centered their presentations on their work in public service and how they found time for this work in their academic careers and their hectic everyday lives...
...awful as the Asian correction is, it was, in a sense, inevitable because those economies had trundled billions of dollars into useless real estate and industrial development. "In general," said Summers, 44, as he sat in the Frankfurt airport last fall recovering from a hectic trip to Moscow, "we start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient." Over dinner recently someone congratulated Rubin on the booming U.S. economy and pointed out that one international magazine had been uniformly wrong in its predictions of a complete global collapse. The Secretary wasn...
...there were also reasons why a frail 78-year-old with Parkinson's spent two hectic days in the river city. One was that by hopping from deeply Catholic Mexico City to Catholic-founded St. Louis, he stressed solidarity within the huge territory that, despite political and economic disparities, the Vatican likes to call simply "America." Another was Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis, a beloved adviser. The third reason, more subtle but equally important, might be dubbed Betty Rataj...
...Optimists see every calamity as an opportunity," Rudy says, taking time out from a hectic day spent filling Internet orders for dried blueberries and other chaos-resistant delicacies. "Civilizations rise to the level of their incompetence," he goes on, "but personally I really believe there will be a new Golden Age afterward." In the spirit of other latter-day Candides who see the Y2K bug as a liberator, smashing the shackles of bad credit histories, staggering MasterCard bills and decades-old criminal records (and putting these folks on an equal financial footing with newly impoverished corporate CEOs), Rudy looks forward...