Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bass, 31, has likened his job to that of a field-goal kicker, a man whose calculations must be exactly right ("You can't even look relieved"). But he revels in the pressure and fevered pace. "Sometimes day, as opposed to night, loses significance, and also you feel like you're being washed down a mad stream somewhere. Fatigue becomes the currency with which you pay. It makes sense though. It is energy, after all, that you are looking for: buried." He recalls the mineral's origin, millions of years ago, in ancient seashores, and feels that there...
Republican Governor James Thompson has vetoed antiabortion legislation. Attorney General Neil Hartigan, the most likely Democratic candidate to try for Thompson's job next year, has announced his personal opposition to abortion and, as the state's top lawyer, is obligated to uphold some restrictions the state did enact. So which one is angling for the pro-choice vote? Guess again. Thompson's vetoes were cast on the ground that the legislation involved was unconstitutional under Roe v. Wade. But after the Supreme Court's Webster decision last week suggested that those restrictions might be constitutional after all, the Governor...
...pupil has become the teacher, the tentative has become the confident. Or to use another Ailes line, "George Bush has realized he does not have to audition anymore; he's got the job...
...When Roger Ailes was asked to help get Bush elected, he applied his paramount rule for taking a job: "The candidate can't be nuts." Ailes figured then and figures today that he found a man cast in the concrete of sanity...
Congress is putting pressure on the industry to prevent accidents and do a better job of mopping up slicks. -- The Time-Paramount battle heads for a showdown in a Delaware court. -- T. Boone's Tokyo campaign...