Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instability of Negro family life. Although Moynihan clearly attributed that instability to more than two centuries of racial oppression, several black leaders took offense at his use of terms like "tangle of pathology" to describe the Negro family. Shortly afterward, Moynihan left his job at Labor. His stint as director of Nixon's Urban Affairs Council ended a year after his memo urging a period of "benign neglect" of the racial issue was leaked to the press in 1970. Moynihan still bristles at what he regards as widespread misinterpretation of that phrase. It did not, he insists, refer to less...
...mercenaries, activities in Africa ... military background a must." The ad was placed by David Bufkin, 38, a crop duster and former G.I. who said he had been hired by "Portuguese interests" to recruit 300 Americans for UNITA and the F.N.L.A. ($1,200 a month for a one-year stint...
...lawyer since he was six. At San Francisco's Hastings College of Law, he stood near the top of his class for the first year, then spent his final two years trying to keep academically afloat while he worked in a local law firm. After a stint as a tax editor for a legal publishing firm, he joined the San Mateo County district attorney's office in 1961. As chief trial deputy, Browning prosecuted 189 cases ranging from robbery to murder. In 1970, he was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California...
Haber says his stint as a clown was his first "real experience" in juggling. He performed with two other jugglers, six shows a day, six days a week...
Spartichino does not have--and did not seek--endorsements from any political groups in the city. He is counting on his past political experience, which also includes a stint as Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General from 1970 to 1974, to bring him votes in his home turf in North Cambridge. "I may get one vote from Brattle Street," Spartichino says, "but I won't count...