Word: thanklessness
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...secure and gets called to a few domestic squabbles. He witnesses an autopsy and spends months trying to shake the memory of what he has seen. Most of all, he listens to the eight other men on the force and comes to respect them. They have drifted into thankless jobs. One tells him: "Right now I work on the police force, my wife stamps cans in the supermarket, and she makes more money than I do." Says another...
...most part, an anonymous, thankless and tedious duty. The four officers would be among the first to hope that it stays that way; the moment their job becomes exciting could be the beginning of World War III. Yet if they were not there, and the black bag in their charge were not within the President's easy reach, he would be unable to preserve and enforce a balance of power between East and West; he would no longer embody the sanction of American force necessary to restrain the nation's adversaries. In that case, the world would be an even...
...assurance that in modern times troubles like those in Poland need not lead to war has a ring of unintended irony in the wake of his decision two weeks ago to proclaim martial law-"a state of war," as it is called in the Polish constitution. Jaruzelski got his thankless, and perhaps hopeless, job heading the party because he was, and still is, Defense Minister and chief of the armed forces. The absurd logic of his appointment is now complete: he has threatened war against his own people...
Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, 60, also faces the thankless task of presiding over the disappearance of his own domain. A Utah educator who once was a strong supporter of a separate Education Department, Bell has won White House approval for his dismantling zeal. Says a presidential aide: "He has not been captured by the bureaucracy. He's made a positive impression by being the first Cabinet member to perform institutional hara-kiri...
...recognized that the sale might be doomed, suggested to the White House that National Security Adviser Richard Allen be put in charge of it. The recommendation, some insiders claim, was a clever way to cripple further one of Haig's rivals by sloughing off on him a thankless task. In fact, Haig had facetiously suggested that Vice President George Bush, another sometime adversary, might be the best man to take charge of selling the sale...