Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official did not call stalling," Peckham continued. "When you work hard, you're in condition, you make attempt after attempt to take down and the referee doesn't do his job, it makes it very difficult...
...didn't want them to hurt us by getting easy buckets in transition or off the press," Roby said. "That's where we did a better job tonight...
Richard Darman was an anonymous White House staffer seven years ago, still struggling to make his place among Reaganauts suspicious of his moderate politics, but he knew what job would suit him next. If his ally David Stockman, then the embattled Budget Director, departed, Darman thought himself a natural for the Office of Management and Budget. Word of his ambition seeped out. A newspaper column scoffing at his qualifications got big play in Boston, and his ailing father saw it. The younger Darman seethed, and not only because of the criticism. Later he confided that he was upset partly because...
After earning an M.B.A. at Harvard, he did research on education policy that led to a job at the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Secretary Richardson soon drew him into his personal circle. As Richardson toured the Nixon and Ford Cabinets -- serving as head of Defense, Justice and Commerce -- Darman followed. Richardson, a problem-solving progressive who wore his Republicanism lightly, even served Jimmy Carter as vice chairman of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. With that political lineage and a wife describing herself as "alas, a good old-fashioned liberal...
Thomas, 55, illustrates her lessons with examples from her own life of trials. Her husband was killed in a fire at his foundry job, leaving her with three young children. While working full time, she earned a degree in sociology from San Francisco State University. Several years later, she was almost killed in a fire that destroyed her house. Today, living in the neighborhood that many of her mothers come from, she is often awakened at night by dopers going to and from a "rock house" across the street. "I tell the women constantly that I'm part of them...