Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grimy makeshift shelter at Bobby Maduro Miami Stadium. There, cots were crammed end to end, and families crowded around long tables eating rice and beans, Big Macs and other offerings from local restaurants. Still, many agree with Manuel Ortega, 33, a carpenter from Managua who says he lost his job because of his anti-Sandinista politics, that "anything is better than home." At week's end most of the refugees had been moved to apartments and a church shelter...
...post tended to wind up as voices in the wilderness rather than confidants in the Oval Office. But George Bush's choice for the post, Stanford University Professor Michael Boskin, 43, is a trusted adviser and an open- minded scholar who could help restore genuine authority to the job. Says Robert Litan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution: "For the first time in recent memory, the incoming chairman is someone who was deeply involved during the campaign...
Covering the White House has always been a difficult job. The competition is keen, and the sources are limited. Unlike Congressmen or even big-city mayors, who can be staked out and buttonholed by reporters, the President and his top aides are carefully protected by elaborate security measures and protocol. Journalists who push too hard risk getting frozen out. "Generally the best, most aggressive reporting does not come from White House reporters, because they have to maintain their good relations," says Knight-Ridder correspondent Owen Ullmann...
DANGEROUS LIAISONS. What deadly games people play in this excellent gloss on Christopher Hampton's play. John Malkovich and Glenn Close are the decadent puppeteers of lust who realize, too late, that the job comes with fatal strings attached...
With a background of experience in Washington and service already honored by Harvard, the new Kennedy School dean starts off his job offering a University professorship to a wealthy industrialist. "I'm glad Dean Meese gave me this opportunity to serve Harvard," says E. Robert Wallach...