Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...13th Surgeon General, whose second term runs through the end of the year, almost never got a chance to don a uniform. When Koop, a retired pediatric surgeon, and his wife Betty moved to Georgetown in early 1981 to await his confirmation, they became proof of the old saw that if you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog. The process, expected to take a few days, turned into nine nightmarish months of name-calling and personal attacks, as liberals stalled his confirmation. He was called a right-wing crank, a prolife nut, a religious zealot, inexperienced, Dr. Unqualified...
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (TNT, April 24, 8 p.m. EDT). Farrah Fawcett plays the globe-trotting LIFE photographer in a made-for-Turner movie that dwells equally on her career and her long-term relationship with writer Erskine Caldwell (Frederic Forrest...
...personal trainers, liver with kiwi, and Cher ought to be more adventurous than to have a Mayor for Life. But that's what Los Angeles' Tom Bradley is turning out to be. The man the Wall Street Journal calls the "recumbent incumbent" has just been elected to a fifth term, squeaking by with a 52% majority against a weak field of opponents. With no strong challenger to smoke him out, the tall, quiet Bradley got away with something akin to a Rose Garden strategy. He granted few interviews and ran in part on a platform of "the most ambitious sewer...
...Bush makes jokes about him. The most exciting thing about Pete Wilson -- dubbed one of the more anonymous people in American politics -- was his showing up on the Senate floor straight from the hospital in his pajamas to cast an important vote. Wilson was so unremarkable during his first term that one-third of California voters were unable even to rate his performance...
...convicted on all counts, he could be sentenced to 60 years in prison and fined as much as $3 million. However, federal court practice is generally to limit sentences to the longest term for any one count--in this case 10 years...