Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sheehy borders on the implausible when she suggests that George Bush submitted to Reagan as his father figure in the same manner as he had submitted to his authoritarian father as a youth or that Gary Hart, whom she compares to Gatsby, is unable to "search out a middle path between Nazarene perfection and Beatty-esque amorality." Too often, Sheehy's ruins a well-written chapter with such pop psychology...
...most Japanese firms, opportunities for women are limited: most rise no higher than clerk. Last year Nomura finally introduced a modest program that offers women a career path toward management, but so far, only 13 have been tapped. Many female employees wind up marrying a Nomura colleague. Says a male employee: "The good thing is, if you marry within the company, the wife doesn't complain that you come home late. An outsider couldn't understand...
Childhood has not been an easy path for Josh. He will never forget the night nearly nine years ago when his parents told him they were divorcing. "My sister Dana and I really liked watching the TV show Mork and Mindy, so my parents decided to tell us right before the show so we could watch it afterward," he says. "I don't think we ever got around to watching it. I just remember crying...
...pressures: stress, family problems, etc. The crack dealers in the inner-city are acting largely out of sociological pressures, and more fundamentally than that, economic ones. In both cases, drugs hardly seem to be the source of either problem, they are merely an avenue of expression, dangerous though the path...
...ground zero for mover-and-shaker watching, was as jammed as a Bloomingdale's white sale, and the elevators were as slow as a Bill Clinton nominating speech. New York's Governor stood impatiently in a crowd waiting for an elevator. When the doors opened, loyal functionaries cleared a path and commandeered the car -- a singular act in this city of practiced charm and charming impracticality. An irked Southern woman remarked loudly as the Governor strode onto the elevator, "Just like a New Yorker...