Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Left unanswered in the last-minute senatorial rush to heap praise on Champion were questions about his opinions on issues like welfare reform and national health insurance, as well as potential conflict-of-interest problems arising from his previous position at Harvard. After generating some heat, but very little light, the members of the Finance Committee failed to resolve the very questions they raised, and ignored issues of possible future importance. Sadly, the Champion confirmation hearings resembled the circus that was performed all too often on Capitol Hill this spring...
...with a highly successful career and an NCAA title in his pocket. The retirement of a successful men's coach has always been big news, but women's coaching has, until recently, been basically ignored. However, this week even The New York Times was quick to acknowledge that Cathy Rush had ended her seven-year reign as Immaculata's coach of women's basketball. In her tenure as the head of the three-time national champions, Rush compiled a 149-15 won-lost record--an amazing feat for a man or woman...
...that would not keep it this way." French newspapers and magazines picked up the conspiracy theme-with hysterical abandon. Paris Match, for example, last week breathlessly exposed "The Plot Against Concorde." With French opinion whipped to fever pitch as the Port Authority's deadline neared, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush, who supports the Concorde, considered bolting the steel shutters on the embassy's windows in case of violence...
...Capitol Hill home by his wife Nancy-causing him daily to rue Jimmy Carter's decision to strip his assistants of limousine service. But one plus about his job as the key senior adviser to the President is the fact that he does not have to cope with rush-hour traffic. He comes to work too early and leaves too late...
...boring and unsatisfying and, as men know well, leaves little enough time for a family or any other form of commitment or self-development.) Most potentially dangerous for the family, Cardozo argues, is the fact that the women's movement has urged wives to follow men in their rush to be gobbled alive by the success ethic, emulating the American man at a time when he has never been "less in need of emulation, and more in need of searching his own soul...