Word: stints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life were hard and dull, Tripp has discovered in the past few years that in Washington, excitement and fame are traded in a currency more basic than power: knowledge. And Tripp has had a good taste of that, having held secretarial jobs all over the White House, including a stint in one of the most sensitive, secret-rich corners of the West Wing, the counsel's office. It is Scandal Central, the final stop for all legal matters. A busy place in the Clinton years...
...realized at an early age and it was one of the reasons why the Canadian national team came calling on Storey when he was only 17 years old. Even though he was the youngest player by five years, Storey was tossed into two contests during his two-week stint with Team Canada...
...more "giants" of the Harvard house system will retire this year when Judy and John E. Dowling end their 17-year stint as masters of Leverett House...
...months later, Bott became a graduate student at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He received a Ph.D in mathematics two years later in 1949, and fell in love with the field of topology after a stint at Princeton as a postdoctorate student. Bott has since become a prominent contributor in the field...
...side Harvard, I feel at liberty to comment on a couple of suggestions made by English department chair Leo Damrosch in regard to the University's recent failure to tenure Prof. Jeffrey Masten. According to the Crimson's Dec. 10 article on the case, Damrosch speculates that Harvard must stint on granting tenure to English literature Faculty because the department is small, presumably meaning that it can accommodate only a choice few in its senior ranks. I have heard this argument before, and I am as bemused by it now as I was when I was on the Harvard Faculty...