Word: junior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events were a remarkable victory for Walesa and for Solidarity, only four months ago a banned organization. The daring and imagination that led to the dramatic developments came largely from Walesa, who shrewdly seized an opportunity to precipitate the change in government by wooing away the Communists' junior parliamentary partners. Walesa then wisely refrained from seeking the Prime Minister's job himself, preferring to work behind the scenes and perhaps eventually make a bid for the presidency...
...Walesa seven of 21 Cabinet posts, including Deputy Prime Minister and the ministries of health, industry, environment and housing. Again Walesa refused, on the grounds that only a Solidarity government would have enough support to carry out the tough austerity measures needed to ease Poland's economic crisis. A junior role in a coalition government would implicate Solidarity in that crisis without giving it the means to bring about significant change. "By remaining in opposition," said Walesa, "we can make sure that the government doesn't leave the road to reform...
...awake sweating in the middle of the night, having dreamt that I was trapped in the movable stacks of Pusey Library while researching what Milton had for breakfast the day he started writing Paradise Lost. I thought publish or perish only applied to junior professors seeking tenure. I was wrong...
...campaign manager. To % allay those concerns, Atwater invited one of the brothers to join the campaign organization full-time. So George, Laura and their twin daughters moved to Washington for the duration. After a dozen years of independence, he was back in his father's orbit being called Junior...
...often a mud wrestle among contending egos. "I was the loyalty thermometer," he says. Frequently he cut through bureaucratic inertia to get necessary decisions made. And he was ever leery of leaks and resentful of the personal ties to reporters that Atwater and other heavyweights had. Yet it was Junior who went on the record with a Newsweek correspondent to deny salacious gossip about the candidate. It was a brash act that both got the adultery rumor into print and choked off its circulation. Occasionally Atwater used him as an emissary to the candidate when the mission was delicate...