Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...filling memos and churning gossip at a frightening pace, appointments filtering out somewhat less frequently. Yet when January 20 rolled around, with all the frenzy of freed hostages and an inauguration, only a few of the hundreds of succabinet posts in various government departments had been parceled out to loyal Reaganites; most slots remained, for the time being, in the hands of previous occupants, or just empty. All in all, not exactly according to plan. Or, as the previously mentioned former aide wryly put it: "We didn't hit the ground running...
...scheduled. He ate dinner, waited his turn behind Senator John Glenn and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to give his speech, which was nice but not notable, and then slipped out so that he would not paralyze the after-dinner festivities. Nobody was dazzled, but even the loyal opposition felt a little warmth toward the man for displaying such natural dignity...
These are the people who will leave Harvard this year, and for another 347 years, to become loyal alumni of the Porcellian Club and lawyers in New York earning six-figure salaries. For with the Harvard name stamped on a diploma that you can hang up on the wall and write into your resume, there's little that will get in your way. Many of them entered Harvard knowing exactly what they had to do; took their required pre-med courses, learned computer skills and filled out the applications that they needed to keep climbing up the ladder...
...chanted "Death to America," but demonstrations had periodically rumbled around the embassy before in the ten months since Shah Reza Pahlavi had been forced out of Iran by the Muslim revolution. In February, Marxist guerrillas had seized the embassy and held it for nearly two hours. That time, forces loyal to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, in what now seems the sourest of ironies, came to the rescue of Ambassador William Sullivan and some 100 embassy employees. Since then the ambassador had left, dependents had been sent home, and the garrison staff that remained had grown accustomed to angry commotion...
...Linebacker Ted Hendricks, and they have thrived. Such rehabilitations have embarrassed more than one team. Says Cleveland Coach Sam Rutigliano: "I won't trade with him, and when we shake hands, I check to be sure I still have five fingers." Davis' retreads and rejects are fiercely loyal to the man who saved their careers. Says Defensive End John Matuszak: "Oakland was my last shot. Al Davis decided to help this kid out. I'll never let him down...