Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these few precious moments in the limelight, it would seem, is to grasp their proximity, hastily prepare as best one can, and proceed to flourish, flaunt, razzle and dazzle with all cameras pointed at you. Often, however, this is the most difficult piece of the task...
...women's soccer team to shame and with power that could knock the wind out of a production assistant during spirited office-time slam dancing, the latter thesis of which I had the displeasure of confirming. Needless to say, any fear I had of failing at my task multiplied considerably when I realized that this individual would be the ultimate judge of my work...
...discovered during the first show, any knowledge that I had reaped anytime in my education since the required pre-kindergarten coordination exercises I had suffered through in 1984, served no purpose for the task at hand. Sure, my xeroxing was more than satisfactory, what with a summer of interning under my belt, but my fine motor skills were surprisingly rusty. During that first show, as I jerked the text back and forth through the camera, the rippling host became increasingly agitated, and gave me a firm scolding while the set crew and production team waited for Take 13. The speech...
...Attorney General Janet Reno had a least-wanted list, former campaign-finance-task-force chief Charles LaBella would be on it. Republicans regularly bludgeon Reno for rejecting LaBella's call for an independent counsel to follow the trail of alleged campaign violations into President Clinton's inner circle. Next week LaBella returns to Washington in triumph. FBI director Louis Freeh is staging an invitation-only ceremony at which he intends to bestow upon LaBella a "Director's Award for Excellence...
...much money. Front-runners do not complain about ironies like that, nor is one likely to admit publicly that when he wins, he will be less a public servant than a corporation, in thrall to polls on visible issues and to special-interest shareholders on everything else. The task of voicing such unpleasantness ? of running on it ? tends to be taken up by the underdogs, to the candidates who must make a virtue out of losing, out of not attracting those almighty dollars like flies to honey. Who think maybe they can win that...