Word: tackers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George Shultz is a golfer, not a sailor, but he likes to describe his practice as an economic manager in nautical terms. A confirmed free-marketeer in an Administration whose economic policies blow hither and yon, Shultz learned to become a master tacker, but he never really learned to like it. Last week, after 22 tiring months as Treasury Secretary and more than five years in top economic posts, Shultz announced that he will resign and leave the Government...
...already been bounced from a handful of schools before he sneaked into the service at the illegal age of 16. After receiving a dishonorable discharge from the Army, he returned to the Village, where he scrounged jobs as a waiter at Howard Johnson's and a poster tacker at the Bleecker St. Cinema...