Word: partners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lots, as it turns out. Take, for example, Fatal Attraction. It is your standard slasher scenario. Pheromones sing sly duets in a seemingly innocuous setting. The sex object is cute and easily seducible, but interested only in an encounter that is brief and zipless. Whereupon the rejected partner falls to obsessive brooding and proceeds down a darkening path from harassment to stalking with a deadly weapon. Uh-huh. At best it sounds like a cult classic in the making...
...real challenges and frustrationsfor those pursuing policy careers in the publicsector is the lack of a defined career path,"Waters says. "For lawyers, there is the challengeof making partner, a teacher shoots for tenure, abusinessman for CEO. But in the public sector thecareer path is just not altogether clear...
...average, are after a free-agency mechanism more meaningful than the strict compensation system in place since 1977. Over an entire decade of free enterprise, it has brought about the emancipation of a solitary St. Louis defensive back named Norm Thompson. No matter the player, pro football's unique partner-owners have been disinclined to fork over high draft choices for the rights to their brethren's superstar. It is probably fair to say that the owners have competed more strenuously against alien forces like the defunct United States Football League than against one another...
...Chip Reid, 39, a partner in the Washington law firm of Covington & Burling, the dream house has become a reality. He and his wife and two young daughters moved into their new home in McLean, Va., last month, just as the first grass began to peep through on their newly seeded front lawn. Their dwelling, though, is more than just a cozy little nest in the suburbs. The Reids' Colonial-style house has 15 rooms, including four bedrooms, a library and an exercise center. Stereo music can be piped into each room, and, using infrared remote-control devices, the family...
...well-heeled members of the suburban gentry go to more extravagant lengths. Cableland, the 30-room mansion built by Cable TV Mogul Bill Daniels in Denver, has a bandstand in the living room. A $20 million home in Bel Air, Calif., owned by a Los Angeles developer and a partner, has a 55- ft.-long aboveground swimming pool on a terrace. The pool has underwater windows that give swimmers a spectacular view of the Los Angeles Basin. In Lake Forest, Ill., a 38-year-old consumer-electronics salesman has installed both a waterfall and a swimming pool in his kitchen...