Word: talents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even before proceedings started, Salcido asked to return to the U.S., and he was whisked back on a plane lent to authorities by Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz. But not all extraditions are that uncomplicated. For well-financed and influential fugitives like Khashoggi, who have access to top legal talent, the process can drag out for months. Soon after Khashoggi's arrest, his U.S. lawyer landed in Bern, and his Swiss attorney announced, "We intend to look at all the legal angles open...
...students who have to work their way through college to opt for the free route. To be bribed by a tantalizing way to pay their ticket through here, and, yes, to take up a greater burden for our nation's defense than is equitable. To turn their time and talent away from other academic and extracurricular pursuits. To have the relief of paying a bill...
Screenwriters travel an easier path to success than producers or directors because screenwriting talent accompanied by persistence does not go unrewarded in Hollywood, Katz said. "There are no great scripts sitting around Hollywood [that are not eventually purchased]," he said...
...overwhelming odds and choke miserably. Squandering the legacy of a long-forgotten Marine Engineering Tutor, Currier's yachtsmen use their wondrous and speedy craft exclusively as a means to embarrass themselves. Nonetheless, their most remarkable achievement is not their genius for finding abjectly humiliating ways to lose, but their talent for having absolutely no fun in their attempts...
...studying women and stress, Wellesley College researcher Rosalind Barnett has found that alcoholism and depression in women are less frequent among those who work. Nor could most families afford to have one spouse give up working. And the American economy could not stand the hemorrhage of so much talent from its work force...