Word: stints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many already know what Hall can do. His 13-week stint on the Late Show was a ratings success and ended only because Fox had previously committed itself to the Wilton North Report (yet another late-night failure). A Cleveland native, Hall started his show-biz career as a stand-up comic and became host of the TV series Solid Gold. But he claims he has wanted to do a talk show since age twelve: he calls Carson his "idol" and, like Johnny, was a child magician. When Paramount TV initially offered him his own show, Hall was reluctant...
...PIRATES OF PENZANCE. John Reed, doyen of the D'Oyly Carte and leading Gilbertian, delights in an off-Broadway stint as Major General Stanley...
Konvalchik hit the mats for the first time this season, fresh from a stint with the varsity football team. Heavy-weight Tony Consigli, also straight from the football fields, looks to get some wrestling time in the next few matches...
...graduate of Columbia Law School, Kramer brings an impressive amount of journalistic yardage to TIME. He spent more than a decade as an editor and political writer for New York magazine, and his weekly column on national affairs was often quoted by other journals. He did a short stint as publisher of the paperback house Berkley Books. In the mid-1970s, Kramer was editor and publisher of More, a lively journalism review. Most recently he served as chief political correspondent for U.S. News & World Report...
...something to shoot for, it's not critical. Growing families or businesses or nations have a legitimate need to borrow if they're investing in the future. It makes sense to borrow for education, research, equipment and infrastructure that will make us more productive. We would be insane to stint in these areas. Is NASA a place to cut back? Hardly. NASA and high-tech programs like it are engines of our economic future. If we lose our technological edge, we've lost our economic future...