Word: thanklessness
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Easing the transition has been Needham's thankless mission. By the accounts of even his bitterest enemies, his job was an impossible one. He had to negotiate Wall Street acceptance of reforms that he opposed strongly himself because he felt that they would undermine the pre-eminence of the organization he headed. For example, he favored the idea of one central U.S. securities market, as long advocated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but he left no doubt that he wanted the N.Y.S.E. to be that market. The SEC, on the other hand, wants a computerized network that would...
...just a worker now," Holcombe said yesterday while spooning down beef stew during his break. "Being a shop steward is a thankless job and I'll never do it again," he said...
Recent attacks on the 1-1-2 plan do not acknowledge the real issues and are rather unfair to its advocates. First, those who support 1-1-2 have done a thankless service in identifying the particular problems of sophomore year. David Riesman's thoughtful treatment of these in the letter at issue have been totally ignored. Opponents of 1-1-2 need to show that (as I believe) a separate sophomore year would on balance meet these problems no better than the Houses...
...professional soldier who served as a foreign policy aide to Henry Kissinger, General Alexander Haig reluctantly gave up his job as Army Vice Chief of Staff to become chief of staff of Richard Nixon's White House after H.R. Haldeman was forced to quit. In that thankless assignment, Haig played a pivotal role as Nixon left office and, for all practical purposes, was the acting President in Nixon's last anguished days. After helping Gerald Ford settle into office, last October Haig was picked by the new President to be Supreme Allied Commander Europe, following a succession...
Thrown without White House training into a thankless job, Nessen is still attempting to organize an unsure staff; he usually visits Ford three or four times daily; he sits in on White House meetings (except the National Security Council's); and every once in a while he sees his infant son Edward...