Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...step ahead of his bookie's enforcers, and has now reappeared to make excuses and bed room eyes at the wife. Ellis and the show's writers make much merriment at the expense of the sober, straight career Army officer courting the wife; obviously, he is a turkey...
...major events in Egypt's recent history and one of the primary figures who shaped them. Born on Christmas Day, 1918, in the Nile village of Mit Abu el Kom, he was inspired as a youth by the exploits of Kemal Atatürk, the father of modern Turkey. Sadat was twice imprisoned for his revolutionary activities-the second time, in 1946, for complicity in the murder of a former minister in King Farouk's government. As the founder of the Free Officers' Organization within the Egyptian army, Sadat was intimately involved in planning the military coup...
...employee cannot be fired, what about shifting him out of the department? A request for such a transfer must be submitted to the Civil Service Commission, where it often sinks out of sight. To get rid of incompetents, managers steer them to what are called "turkey farms," offices where nothing much is required and little damage can be done. The bureaucracy is studded with these farms, which a HUD analyst claims can be spotted on sight. "Just walk down the halls," he says. "You'll see lots of zombies...
...wasn't doing very well, anyway," she sighs. "I just didn't understand the part." To end the list, add only three words: Gable and Lombard, possibly the worst major movie of the decade. Says she: "You would think I would never have worked after that turkey...
...speech and during the question session that followed, Averoff avoided comment on his country's internal politics. He concentrated instead on the themes of hopes for improved relations with the United States and Turkey...