Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when possibilities seem boundless but money often is not, graduating seniors are ideal candidates for recruitment into the armed services. With federally sponsored job-training and financial-aid programs virtually dismembered by the Reagan Administration, the military has sought to fill the void by stressing its willingness to outfit men and women for high-tech careers and provide aid for higher education. Says Captain George Karpinski, an Army recruiter in the Atlanta area: "Seventeen- and 18-year-olds are our primary market...
...Orleans. In a runoff this week he faces runner-up John Treen, 63, a local builder and the brother of former Governor David Treen. Duke denies he is a racist and says coyly that he supports "civil rights for all people." Duke, who says he heads an outfit called the National Association for the Advancement of White People, still has the same address and phone number as the local Ku Klux Klan headquarters...
...intense than when he was obsessed by wealth. Habitat staffers say a strange but not uncommon sight is the gangling Fuller bounding up to the headquarters, clutching a fistful of trash he swooped up on his walk to work. He functions as the spiritual leader of the ecumenical, nonprofit outfit. Much of his time is spent visiting local Habitat affiliates and proselytizing. Once or twice a year he takes hammer in hand and helps finish off a Habitat home with the volunteers. Full-time helpers in Americus, Ga., are paid only their lodging and a weekly "pig check...
Such appointments illustrate a truism pithily expressed by the counsel to Bush's transition team, C. Boyden Gray: "Personnel is policy." One outfit that has learned that lesson well is the Heritage Foundation, which last week deposited a ten-foot stack of resumes of some 2,500 would-be Bush appointees at the offices of the transition team. Sighed an already overloaded transition personnel director Chase Untermeyer: "What a wonderful gift...
...Election Day he never went to the Oval Office, a rare departure from his schedule. He stayed in the White House's private quarters, padding around some of the time in a jogging outfit, phoning old friends and sampling the early television bulletins. His pollster Richard Wirthlin came around, and the two men looked at the figures. A sudden drop in Bush support in some spots had caused overnight concern, but then the tracking data through the day showed a solid Bush lead. He cut the photo opportunities down to a lone picture of Nancy and him watching the early...