Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kirkpatrick's cult standing with the party's ruling right wing was firmly established last summer, when her attack on "the San Francisco Democrats," whom she blamed for an era of national self-doubt, drew a foot-stamping response at the Republican Convention in Dallas. While her departure from the Administration was somewhat strained, Reagan went to considerable lengths to retain her. Though it has never been mentioned publicly, Secretary of State George Shultz offered her a job as his deputy. Kirkpatrick has continued to please conservative supporters with calls for an assertive U.S. foreign policy. She has been especially...
...Fairchild alumni. He was named president in 1979. Despite his business success, Grove was always attracted to publishing. He has written a book on management and a textbook on semiconductors. His articles have also appeared in FORTUNE, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Last summer at a party during the Democratic Convention, Grove revealed to Mercury News editors his yen to write a regular column. He reports that the editors picked up the offer before they could down another drink. Perhaps price was a reason for the haste. Grove is paid $50 a week...
...Governors, including Mario Cuomo of New York and James Thompson of Illinois, have made pilgrimages to GM in hopes of getting the facility for their states. The scramble has become a distraction and something of an embarrassment to GM, which hopes to pick a location this summer...
...another, since Korea was partitioned at the time of its liberation from the Japanese in 1945. The meeting got off to a rocky start when North Korean delegates refused to allow their South Korean hosts to show them the new sports complex in Seoul, where the 1988 Summer Olympic Games are to be held. The following night the North Koreans declined to attend a movie about the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, boycotted by North Korea and most other Communist countries...
...Indifference may be Clay's most endearing virtue. He sleeps with Griffin (male) and Blair (female); whoever asks first gets him. When one of his sisters gives him an expensive leatherbound datebook, he knows at once he will not use it: "I tried to keep a datebook one summer, but it didn't work out. I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I didn't do enough things to keep a datebook." Still, he shambles with a fast crowd; one girl keeps track of her mother...