Word: thanklessness
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...Cabinet Affairs Abdul Rahman al-Awadi, have chosen to stay out of the new Cabinet. They prefer to agitate for democracy from the outside rather than be perceived as defending the status quo. "Whoever accepted a post in this government," says an ex-minister, "is going to have a thankless task." One of the most thankless tasks will be to sell the Kuwaitis on the timing of parliamentary elections. Many hoped the balloting would take place this year, so there was much grumbling when the Emir announced that it would be next year, "God willing." Now it appears the elections...
Early on, the Harvard brass had realized it needed to plug the leaks in the presidential search process. The task fell to Secretary to the Corporation Robert Shenton and University Attorney Michael W. Roberts. It was a thankless task for both men. A scene observed by reporters at the Waldorf seemed to characterize the effort. As Harvard's governing boards dined with Rudenstine inside the hotel's Louis XVI room, Roberts sat alone in the anteroom reading that day's New York Times. Inside the paper was an article reporting that Rudenstine was the search committee's choice, a fact...
...myth now firmly established is that some Fort Wayne party men chose | Quayle because of his looks for the thankless task of running against eight- term Democratic Congressman Ed Roush in 1976. Quayle was recently introduced to a board meeting of the Hoover Institution as one who volunteered to "fall on his sword" in that 1976 campaign. But Walter Helmke, the G.O.P. candidate in 1974, says that the idea of Roush's invincibility is nonsense. "He only beat me by 8,000 votes, and that was in the post-Watergate election when Republicans did badly. When Dan ran against Roush...
...back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice is a one-woman show. But Smith gets splendid support from Margaret Tyzack in the thankless, stereotypical role of her clumping comrade Lotte Schoen and obliquely from Britain's Prince Charles, whose marginally less dotty tirades against contemporary architecture render Lettice's eccentricities almost trendy...
...bailout's credibility is also being hurt by the Government's problems in finding and keeping top talent to lead the rescue, which many potential candidates view as a thankless job. Daniel Kearney, a real estate expert with Wall Street and Washington experience, seemed an ideal choice for chief executive of the Oversight Board. But Kearney quit in February after just four months on the job, citing a lack of authority "essential to be effective in this process." At the same time, the Treasury Department is having trouble replacing M. Danny Wall, the head of the Office of Thrift Supervision...