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...Zhao began work as a handyman at the U.S. consulate in Xiamen, China, when Calvin Coolidge was his Supreme Employer. In 1945, eight years after consular officials had fled Japanese invaders, an American vice consul popped down from Shanghai and ordered Zhao to keep at it. So each workday since-through Communist takeover and every twist of revolutionary rancor-Zhao Wenjin has puttered about the compound, now an oceanographic institute, and every month he has collected, via the British, his $61 paycheck. Just after Zhao was rediscovered by his absentee bosses, he had a question. "When you see the Americans...
...presidency. Like Eisenhower, Reagan would draw heavily upon industry and commerce for his highest appointees. Reagan and Eisenhower share a preference for successful businessmen as friends and advisers (also an enthusiasm of Richard Nixon's). Reagan in Sacramento, like Ike in Washington, favored a 9-to-5 workday regularity, delegating responsibilities heavily to Cabinet and staff...
This was my assistant's day off; she usually walks with me. As I hurried past the University Museum, I was ordering my workday in my mind. I crossed the street and started past the Science Center toward the Yard. This guy in a white car pulled out of the driveway and stopped in front of me; his window was open. He asked me how I was doing. I said fine. I was sure he was a creep by the sugary tone of voice he was using. I started turning off the sidewalk to go around the front...
After the examination, the doctors recommended that Begin restrict himself to a three-hour workday and try to rest as much as possible. They apparently feared that the medication that Begin takes for his heart condition has affected his body's ability to recover from the stroke. "I am concerned about Mr. Begin's health," said Dr. Fein, "but I admire his courage." Begin is now forced to spend far fewer hours in his office than any previous Israeli Premier. For Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin, 18-hour days were normal. By contrast, Begin usually arrives...
...South First Street in Greenfield, Iowa, and left a few yards around the town square, then turn in to the Ideal Café, and toward the back at a couple of tables any workday morning about 9:30, you will find a genuine American grass root...