Word: master
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Basically Washington shut down," says New York City Deputy Commissioner of Income Maintenance E. Allen Kraus, who received a Master's in City and Regional Planning from the K-School in 1978. "Reagan came in and a lot of things changed. The job market shifted a lot and the fiscal condition of cities like New York and Boston improved. The K-School has to follow the market...
Savitch labored long and hard to master her craft and fight her way into a male-dominated profession. She was quick to realize that TV news was more about show business than journalism. As a fledgling reporter for KHOU-TV in Houston, she ended a report about an exhibit of World War II bombers by posing on a wing like a vintage pinup. Viewers loved it. She moved to Philadelphia in 1972, studied speech and became a celebrated anchor after starring in a series of personal reports about such topics as rape and childbirth...
...this campaign is that Bush, for all his youthful grace and charm, is now displaying neither. The effortless way he assumed leadership at Andover and Yale has vanished. By contrast, Dukakis, who lacked Bush's early ease, is having some success using the determination from his early days to master the political art of appearing warm...
...their homes, cash-flush yuppies have found that a garden can soak up limitless discretionary income. After seeds and dirt, there are goatskin gloves and Garden Weasels, wide- throated anvil pruners from Rolcut of England, not to mention $15,000 for a Sargent weeping hemlock tree. The yuppies quickly master the rituals and floral lore, swap compost recipes at dinner parties. Mulching has become elevator talk...
...touching eagerness of converts leaves some veterans bemused. Gardening, they will tell you, is a vocation, not a gift, and requires work and experience to master and love. "I see these specimen trees coming down the highway from the nursery wrapped like Egyptian mummies," says Long Island Painter Robert Dash, "and I think, 'God, the gardening world has got out of hand...