Word: legwork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the option of outbidding other customers is foreclosed, rich customers turn to "phantom markets" to get their hands on an apartment. This may take the form of legwork, finder's fees, inside knowledge of an available rentstabilized apartment, or even bribing the landlord...
Lawyers and self-styled adoption consultants -- many of them people who have successfully adopted -- encourage would-be parents to do their own legwork. Classified sections of newspapers are loaded with often highly personal ads detailing a couple's medical history and inviting pregnant women to call collect anytime. In her book Beating the Adoption Game, clinical psychologist Cynthia Martin offers tips: "Contact physical-education teachers, who frequently are the first to realize a young girl is pregnant; contact the school nurse to find out if anyone has morning sickness. Never talk to the principal, who may not want to know...
Gradually, though, she earned her colleagues' respect. For several months she labored in relative obscurity, doing legwork on stories that rarely made it on the air ("They called me queen of the stakeouts"). Her big chance came after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. She broadcast live reports from the damaged reactor -- borrowing a producer's tennis shoes so she could stand atop the microwave truck in the rain without slipping off -- and got her first major exposure on the CBS Evening News. After a stint covering the 1980 presidential campaign, she was assigned to the State Department, where...
...Rachlevsky has put his heart and soul and lifeblood in this to make it go," says Madeleine Phillips of Grosse Pointe Farms, who has attended the concerts for seven years. "He's the artistic director, the manager of the outfit, the principal violinist. He did it all -- legwork to advertising. He almost cloned himself...
...TIME correspondents, reporting some cover stories involves weeks, even months, of legwork, grueling sojourns to far-flung places and often tense encounters with figures in the news. So it was with this week's report on the Ayatullah Khomeini's revolutionary Iran and the mounting tensions in the Persian Gulf that Iran has precipitated. TIME's reporting team fanned out to the far corners of the Middle East and the major capitals of Europe and to Washington to talk with various government officials, diplomats and academic experts about the ominous confrontation between Iran and the U.S. -- and indeed the world...