Word: job
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people here feel the administration is doing a good job to turn things around and make it a more pleasant place," says Laurie Deiner, a second-year graduate student. "You certainly feel cared about and that your problems will be addressed...
...pictured above is not a moody, gaunt rock star. He is an avuncular, moonfaced country star with a rather inspired makeup job. But in the tradition of actual moody, gaunt rock stars like David Bowie, GARTH BROOKS has assumed an alter ego named Chris Gaines. Brooks will play Gaines in The Lamb, a film to be released next year. To create buzz for the movie, Brooks will release an album of greatest hits from Gaines' 15-year career. In fact, all the songs on the album are new. "We wrote songs to sound like they came from different periods," explains...
Robert Rubin is happy. He's leaving the Treasury and Washington's rat race. Rubin's deputy, LARRY SUMMERS, is happy. He has been nominated to take over the Treasury Department. And STUART EIZENSTAT is happy. He's been promoted from his job as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs to be Summers' deputy. The only one unhappy is Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT. She lured the Washington-savvy Eizenstat from the Commerce Department two years ago to grab back some control of international economic policy, which the State Department had ceded to other agencies. Since then, State...
...hoped, was closer. But then a note was passed into the Kremlin meeting. Yeltsin had just sacked his Prime Minister, Yevgeni Primakov. Chernomyrdin--whom Yeltsin had fired as Prime Minister in 1998--was electric. Primakov had been considered a leading candidate for the presidency of Russia in 2000--a job Chernomyrdin had also been eyeing. Once Talbott learned the note's contents, he suggested a break. He could see that Chernomyrdin had become too distracted to focus on line drawings on a Kosovo...
...months ago, Israel's former army chief, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, was putting himself forward as a future prime minister. Though his candidacy quickly flopped, the retired general may be up for a lesser but still desirable job: ambassador to the U.S. The Center Party that Lipkin-Shahak represents in the newly elected parliament is almost certain to be a governing partner with the party of prime minister-elect Ehud Barak, who preceded Lipkin-Shahak as military chief of staff. And the two generals were once close, though their relationship tensed over Lipkin-Shahak's initial decision to run against Barak...