Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something the director felt good about doing," an intelligence official said of CIA chief GEORGE TENET's decision to strip his predecessor, JOHN DEUTCH, of his security clearance. "This is someone he worked for, who is a friend and a mentor." But, he adds, "what transpired was a fairly serious breach of the rules regarding handling classified information." Deutch had allowed highly classified material to course through his unsecured home computer--a big no-no. Immediate comparisons were made to the case of nuclear weapons scientist WEN HO LEE, a suspect in China's apparent theft of data...
What makes Van Riper's program special, say volunteers, is that it is personal and direct. "The government assistance shows up in the mailbox," says Jay Cox, a Presbyterian mentor. "We show up at the front door." And when they do, some are learning as much as they are teaching. Like how easy it is to lose a job because the car broke down and there is no public bus, or because a kid was sent home sick from school and the mother needed to be home too. "So now we're developing, just out of compassion and knowledge...
...local radio station to mock him by playing the tune If I Only Had a Brain. One who has been impressed is House minority leader Dick Gephardt. The two men share the same left-of-center ideology, and Kennedy has proved his determination and drive to his mentor through tireless campaigning for other House members and fireplug advocacy of such causes as education and health care...
...relations with Clinton, Barak hopes for what his mentor, assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, had achieved--direct, instant and frequent access to the President. In the weeks after his election, Barak resisted approaches of lesser U.S. officials, such as special envoy Dennis Ross, preferring to wait for a White House chat. Nor did Barak want his subordinates running relations. In a confidential memo, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright advised Clinton that the ex-general was secretive and didn't have a large circle of aides "who knew his mind." A one-on-one relationship with Barak, she said, would...
...royalties could be virtually perpetual, as new markets and technologies opened. Disney was prepared to state that the big profits came only from the first cycle of theatrical and video release. But this suit was personal. Katzenberg often referred to Eisner as a father figure; Eisner had been his mentor for 19 years at Paramount and Disney. So he had to be stung by Eisner's offhand slur, in informal notes for an autobiography, that "I think I hate the little midget"--a remark notable not just for its animosity but also for its redundancy (a former English professor...