Word: thanklessness
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...never been in the hands of such an incompetent group with such dangerous ideas." Shamir sought to distance himself from the discredited dollarization scheme, calling it an "unhatched egg." His government's survival may now depend on whether he can persuade someone of stature to take on the thankless task of assuming responsibility for unpopular economic measures. Said a Likud Party member: "What we need is a knight in shining armor, and we do not have one who is suicidal...
...wrote Aeschylus, the Greek tragedian, in the 5th century B.C. By that standard, the director of the Congressional Budget Office occupies one of the illest offices in Washington. Since becoming the CBO's first director when the agency was set up in 1975, Alice Rivlin has had the thankless task of telling Congress how big future budget deficits will be and proposing various alternatives, most of them politically unpalatable, for reducing the shortfall. After eight often frustrating years, Rivlin, 52, last week turned that role over to Rudolph G. Penner, 47, a conservative Republican economist with a strong distaste...
Even with annual "personnel changes," Fickett maintained continuity for the paper, Lemann said, adding. "She worked a thankless job, but she did a good job keeping books...
...bitching, or at least Hollywood bitching, makes juicy reading Goldman bares the egos, the money hassles, the politicking and nepotism behind the hallowed arches of studio gates and we eat it up. Though he'll stoop to complaining about airport baggage claim, and paints his calling as the most thankless in a business of thankless tasks, he vividly conveys the soulless jockeying for position that forever keeps Hollywood out of touch with quality, if not reality...
...been among the most trying and thankless in the Reagan Administration. Almost from Inauguration Day, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, the President's top economic policy counselor, has had to mediate between feuding factions from the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget in a frustrating effort to help chart a coherent and consistent economic course. Meanwhile, he has been under pressure from the White House to produce economic forecasts that offer hope for the ultimate success of Reaganomics. When Murray Weidenbaum resigned the post three weeks ago to return to teaching, his sudden...