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Freeman first fell in love with acting in the third grade, when he played the title role in a school play, Little Boy Blue. Teachers along the way encouraged him to channel his rambunctiousness into acting, and after a brief stint in the Air Force he headed for Hollywood, naively believing he could get an acting job just by showing up at a studio. But he wasn't pretty like Sidney Poitier or Harry Belafonte, the black leading men of the day, and he soon realized that his chances would be better in New York City's grittier theater scene...
Decaying labs and desperately low salaries have made hiring another FDA travail. Some important drug-review posts have an annual turnover rate of 20%. At least one former FDA official believes many new employees use their stint at the agency to bolster resumes that are then quickly circulated to industry...
...Henkel. Keating bragged that he had won a seat on the FHLBB for his friend and business associate Henkel (Keating had lent more than $60 million to businesses in which Henkel was part owner) by lobbying former White House chief of staff Donald Regan. Henkel's stint on the board lasted only five months. Although he was cleared of any wrongdoing, he resigned after the Justice Department and the FHLBB investigated his first official act: a motion that would have specifically benefited Keating by exempting Lincoln from direct-investment limits...
...McCoo as co-host of Solid Gold, a syndicated music show. Then he got a call from the Fox Network, asking him to be a last-minute replacement for Frank Zappa as fill-in host of The Late Show, which had just dumped Rivers, its original star. Hall's stint went so well that he was asked back twice the following week. Soon he was doing the program full time...
After doctoral study at the University of Minnesota and a teaching stint at the University of California at Berkeley, Mas-Colell secured a tenured post at Harvard...