Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Hamilton Jordan, deputy chairman of Carter's re-election committee, was visibly more confident, poised and worldly than at a similar lunch in the same room four years ago. Carter Re-Election Chairman Robert Strauss was a lively storyteller despite the early hour and an almost around-the-clock schedule. White House Pollster Patrick Caddell still talked revealingly about what the numbers told of Carter-good and bad. Arizona Congressman Morris
...skepticism about Kennedy was even more evident the next morning when the President's closest advisers-Charlie Kirbo, Stu Eizenstat, Jordan and Powell -gathered at 9 o'clock in Strauss's three-room hotel suite. Strauss informed them that he had called Kennedy early that morning only to be told the Senator was too busy to talk about their differences on the platform. Jordan had a similar story to report. His counterpart on the Kennedy side, Paul Kirk, had not returned his calls either. "They're not going to play ball," said Strauss. The group spent...
Koch trains for his job like a prizefighter. Weekday mornings he gets up at 6 o'clock and hurries off to a health spa near city hall. The manager opens it early so that Koch can ride the exercise bicycle, do sets of 17 sit-ups and bench presses, and jog a mile on the treadmill-all before going to work at 8 a.m., fit and eager for the day's crises. "Being mayor is a 24-hour-a-day job," says Koch. And that's how many hours he is fit and eager...
Some top U.S. competitors missed the show: 900 swimmers were in Irvine, Calif., participating in their own Olympics, the U.S. National Championships. They were racing against each other but even more against the clock, which flashed their own times alongside those of the previous week's winners in Moscow. Said Mike Bruner, 24, the 1976 gold medalist in the 200-meter butterfly: "It will make me happy if our swimmers blow away the Olympic times, especially the Russians...
...Manufacturing Corp., a maker of auto-ignition parts, Sterling Custom Homes Corp., a producer of prefab dwellings, and Combination Door Co., which turns out components for houses. Ray Wittkop, 59, had been with Mercury Marine for 40 years. He says dejectedly: "They called me in at 11 o'clock one day and said that they were retiring me. There hadn't been any inkling. I felt like a whipped...