Word: plodding
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Modern society, Hartmann contends, generally favors the farmer mentality, rewarding those who develop plans, meet deadlines and plod through schedules. But there's still a place for hunters, says the author, who counts himself as one: they can be found in large numbers among entrepreneurs, police detectives, emergency-room personnel, race-car drivers and, of course, those who stalk the high-stakes jungle known as Wall Street...
Despite the flare-up back home, the Washington negotiators continued to plod along in relatively civil discussions. Israel charged that Syria, the dominant power in Lebanon, could stop Hizballah violence if it tried. The Palestinians decried Israel's attack on a refugee camp in north Lebanon that Jerusalem claims is a base for terrorism. Still, all parties have apparently invested too much in a year of negotiations to quit over what is a regular cycle of skirmishing in southern Lebanon...
...began to wonder about ex-sit com stars and what happens to them when the show's run is over. Do they replace reality with fantasy and dreams of what used to be and what could have been? Or do they merely plod on in the acting profession, joining the legions of no-name stage actors all over the country? Of course, if at some point in their career they played a "Mr. Angolino," they're very recognizable, but not as themselves. We'll only know them as Mr. Angolino . . . or Felipe or Janet...
...scrounging for $3,000 in private money so the Habitat people will come in and help replace 30 dilapidated shacks. Cotton planting and ginning take only about six months of each year, and there is no other work for the Jonestown families. Yet Mayor Walker and her small cluster plod on. A sewer system will be completed in a few weeks. Running water is now in most homes. She's working to get hot water to every family. There will soon be a tiny health clinic * visited by a doctor and two nurses. "We've got to get jobs...
...tradition of Live Aid, Sport Aid and Band Aid: it will appeal to the abbreviated American attention span $ with a huge 24-hour dose of stunts, palaver and celebrity hoo-ha. But the environmental movement will be able to survive its commercial mugging, dust itself off and plod forward toward its goal of a cleaner planet. For Earth Day is merely marginal, a loud fashion statement for a quiet revolution in American life. From East Los Angeles to Taylor, N.Y., the morning after Earth Day will find millions of ordinary environmentalists returning to their self- appointed tasks...