Word: stints
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...grandparents Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky were stars of the Yiddish theater in New York City, and young Michael grew up in a musical household. Boyhood piano lessons were followed at the University of Southern California by studies with pianist John Crown and composer-conductor Ingolf Dahl, a summer stint as an assistant at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth in 1966, and an appointment as William Steinberg's assistant at the Boston Symphony Orchestra three years later...
...South Dakota. His angry and emotional breakdown in New Hampshire, railing against a story critical of his wife, may have cost him the nomination. As a Senator from 1959 to 1980, Muskie pushed for laws to protect the environment, earning him the nickname "Mr. Clean". After a brief stint as President Carter's Secretary of State in 1980, Muskie retired from public life to join the law firm of Chadbourne and Parke. he would have been 82 on Thursday...
...Inauguration, Foster had helped negotiate the end of the Clintons' Whitewater partnership with Jim McDougal. As deputy White House counsel, Foster tended to see himself as representing Hillary's interests, according to his boss, Bernard Nussbaum. In addition Foster remained the Clintons' personal lawyer during his White House stint. In the Administration's first few months, Foster seemed increasingly beaten down by controversies, especially the White House's inept handling of the staff firings in the travel office. On the afternoon of July 20, 1993, Vince Foster was found in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, dead from a gunshot wound...
...debut in 1989, the cartoon featured some of what Adams calls "cubicle culture": a natural subject, since he himself occupied Cubicle 4S700R as an applications engineer at Pacific Bell. (He has also been a computer programmer and a commercial lender and was robbed twice at gunpoint during a stint as a bank teller.) But the absurdities of Dilbert's workday shared space with his hopeless dating life and Dogbert's periodic attempts to conquer the world...
Meanwhile, Jeffrey Wigand, a devotee of things Zen since a stint in Japan as an Air Force medical technician, sits remarkably calmly in the eye of a storm he helped create, maintaining what may be the most realistic vision of how far the tobacco wars can ultimately go. "I'm not an antismoking activist," he insists. "I think people are going to continue smoking, no matter what." And that inescapable fact, in the end, may be the best weapon Big Tobacco...