Word: stints
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When Hedrick Smith finished a three-year reporting stint in the Soviet Union in 1974, he did not even dream of writing this book. In fact, he wrote a very different one: The Russians, a best seller that depicted a Soviet society mired in lies, corruption and fear. He was convinced, he recalls in The New Russians, that "fundamental change was impossible...
Beaty has been doing it since a 1978-82 stint in TIME's Washington bureau; among other duties, he covered the Drug Enforcement Administration. He first contributed to a major TIME story on drugs in 1981, when we examined cocaine. This week he takes a look at the empire of Los Angeles superdealer Bo Bennett. Beaty covered Bennett's trial, but also spent months talking to drug traffickers. "At one point," he says, "I actually presided over a conference, with people at all levels of the business explaining to me how it works." Gaining their confidence was not easy. Beaty...
...thirtysomething. He pays half of staffers' bus fares but drives to work himself. After a false start in architecture school, he started work as an ad director with East West Journal in Brookline, Mass. He left in 1974 to help start another alternative publication, New Age Journal. After a stint as a Manhattan literary agent, Utne returned to Minneapolis and started the Reader as a newsletter, which soon blossomed into a hefty 128-page digest...
...quiet suburb of Dublin, this psychodrama unfolds over the card table of Billy Beavis (Jonathan Hammel), who has been home for less than a day from a twelve-month stint at an insane asylum. To celebrate his return he has brought together what remains of his family and friends to participate in an old ritual of friendship--"a poker session." Over the course of the play this friendly game gradually reveals itself to be a carefully orchestrated trial of vengeance. Along with his friend Teddy (C. Michael Rodriguez), a fellow outpatient from the asylum, Billy presides over a tense...
Friends say Bennett yearns for more ideological battles and more challenging adversaries. He is joining the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, and he plans to write a couple of books on education and on his stint as drug czar. There was speculation in Washington that the next antidrug chieftain would be one of the high-profile Republicans who were defeated on Nov. 6. There was also talk at the White House of a successor with a military background. Whoever gets the job will have plenty to do. Americans still spend billions on cocaine and other illegal substances...