Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part of the job of any government, student government or Harvard administration, should be regular and unconditional funding of the arts. I understand that the idea of only providing start-up funding is to make organizations prove their worth, and prevent them from existing just because they can get money. But proving the worth of a literary magazine does not mean being financially independent...
Harvard coaches, on the other hand, are faced with the job of winning games at a school which stresses academics. These coaches say the obstacles--juggling practice schedules to fit athletes' academic calendars and long layoffs during exam periods--present difficult but not insurmountable challenges...
...Central Park, which city authorities had closed down in 1980 for a $9 million refurbishing. Somehow they managed to spend $12 million on preliminary maneuvering without anything whatever to show for it. Looking down at the mess from his skyscraper windows, Trump was displeased. Offering to do the job himself on the original budget within three months, he completed it for $750,000 less -- and now operates the rink at an annual profit of $500,000 (for charity). When authorities tried to honor him by planting a delicate Japanese pine in his name, though, Trump balked. "He went wild because...
...their finery and display some redeeming prurient interest. The actresses are all wanly handsome: ornaments of an era close to exhaustion. Pfeiffer and Thurman make for luscious bookends in the library of lust. Close sits back and plays the puppeteer of a dozen destinies, until she realizes that the job comes with strings attached...
...annually, according to official figures, Zaychenko scoffed that 10 lbs. of that is actually lard and bone, and calculated that the average Soviet eats only about one-third as much meat as the 55 lbs. consumed by an average American. In a comparison that might have cost him his job not too long ago, the economist asserted that the people of the Soviet Union today have a worse diet than the Russians under Czar Nicholas II in 1913, a year of prosperity before World War I and the October Revolution...