Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...character was a key to the success of the departing publisher, it is no less central to the choice of our new one. Ed McCarrick--his wife Pat insists on calling him Edward--is returning to TIME and a job he has aspired to from the moment he joined the company as a junior salesperson in Boston in 1973 to his most recent posting as the publisher of LIFE. And I couldn't be more enthusiastic about having Ed back...
...wake up in the morning and rub my eyes, thinking it can't really have happened." While his impressive record at LIFE made Ed a logical candidate for the TIME job, it was other things that won him the prize. "Edward's got his life in balance," says Pat. "His family, his church and TIME are what's important--and in that order...
Huling hit a long sacrifice fly down the left-field line, which required a diving catch by pat O'Keefe to keep Huling from taking extra bases. Keck's double knocked in the other Harvard...
...suppose Pat would argue that, as things stand, a lot of the money parents spend on getting kids into college is diverted to businesses--SAT cram courses, for instance, and expensive prep schools--that are clustered around the admissions process, like motels and fast-food joints bellying up to the edge of Disney World. Why not have the money go directly to the college...
Because of the 10 applicants who'd be unfairly denied admission, I'd have to say. I would, of course, feel square saying it. Pat would groan, and just to let him know that I was not completely lacking in the imagination to appreciate an inspired idea, I'd tell him how much I had always admired that scheme for turning his boyhood home into a national shrine...