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There's a reason marketing geniuses long ago termed them "diaries"-beyond the daily block of hourly entries, of section meetings, meals, errands and miscellaneous thankless tasks, a year unfolds as effortlessly as pages turned by the wind...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: For Rawlins, Two Lunches And Coffee Is Business as Usual | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

Wrestling is a tough, often thankless sport...

Author: By Nick Pilgrim, | Title: Wrestlers Prepare for Penn | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

...generally prefer that Ashley shoot for dental school instead. In two recent polls, one conducted for CNN and the other for Knight-Ridder Newspapers, only about a third of parents said they would steer their kids toward the White House. The parental attitude is, it's a dirty (and thankless) job and someone else should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TROUBLE WITH CHARACTER | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...agenda Gephardt calls "modest, realistic and achievable," and Republicans blast as election-year gorilla dust. The greatest testament to the House Democrats' new, centrist course is its embrace of the G.O.P. goal of balancing the budget by 2002--something many House Democrats continue to consider an unnecessary and thankless pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT'S NIGHTMARE | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

Many of Lebed's government colleagues consider him a bull let loose in Kremlin corridors, and hoped he would fall flat when he undertook the thankless peace mission. He might yet, but if he can deliver a face-saving way out of the meat-grinder war, he will become a political figure of awesome proportions just as Yeltsin's health and strength are ebbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOW IT'S LEBED'S WAR | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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