Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David and Harriet's dream begins to crumble. Never really self-sufficient, they are not able to deal with the intrusion of the unusual child and the ramifications of his existence. They send Ben away to an institution, but Harriet is unable to leave her child to die with strangers...
...desk as a gaggle of reporters standing around his Yankee Stadium office looked at one another strangely. "I know how I'd do it too. I'd say something, he'd say something. I'd say something, he'd say something. He'd take a swing. There you are. Self-defense...
...disdain for congressional investigators is legendary. This time a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee is demanding to see North's diaries, which may mention drug dealers who were mixed up with the Nicaraguan contras. In spite of the subpoena, North refused to surrender: he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination...
...fact book in order to poke holes in it. Employees were skeptical enough to scoff at the University's statistics, or at least challenge its paternalistic preaching in meetings. When Taylor reached out to them with the friendly-employer message, they were already well-versed in the virtues of self-representation...
...wanted to win at all costs, they could have." Maybe the administration is extremely concerned for employee relations after all. But in actions ranging from its willful disregard of student input to its inability to eradicate institutional sexism, the administration has yet to prove concern for anything but self-perpetuation. Maybe having a union with 3400 members to contend with will be enough to loosen the hierarchy's hold on power and spur reform...