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Word: job (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department of Defense commissioned two reports over the last year to examine the extent to which gays were security risks--the reports came back stating that "having a same-gender orientation is unrelated to job performance in the same way as is being left-or right-handed," and concluded that homosexuals should be given admittance into the military should they meet the other requirements. The Pentagon's response? It "called the study 'unfortunate' and wrote that 'it has it has expended considerable government resources and has not assisted us one whit in our personnel security program." (Boston Globe, 10/29.) Though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Last week the spotlight also fell on M. Danny Wall, picked by the White House in July 1987 to replace Edwin Gray as chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Gray, a onetime captive of the savings and loan industry, lost his job when he began to speak out about the extent of the S & L fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legal Bank Robbery | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...House subcommittee concluded last summer that Guess used improper influence, including a job offer, to persuade Saranow to go after Jordache. In addition, the IRS agent who spearheaded the raid is now the target of two federal investigations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Sorry for the Inconvenience | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

When Wendy Giebler finishes her job as a video production manager in Haverstraw, N.Y., each day, she starts a second shift of a more passionate nature. At home she spends five hours writing letters, preparing testimony, drafting speeches and devouring all the information she can find on how and why Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, last December, killing 270 people. One of the victims was William Giebler, 29, a bond broker who had married Wendy less than a year earlier. "I have nothing else left to live for," says Giebler, who transformed her grief into action. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Lockerbie Alive | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

David Lange walked away from New Zealand's top political job on his own terms, abruptly announcing his resignation as Prime Minister last August. Now serving as the country's Attorney General, Lange, 47, evidently thought he could terminate his marriage in similar fashion. Two weeks ago, he issued a statement that he and his wife of 21 years, Naomi, had separated. There would, he said, be no further comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Zealand: Lange's Little Fantasy Thing | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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