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Word: afton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palo Alto, where an assistant professor at Stanford earns nearly $28,000, a university-area house costs about $325,000 (vs. $144,000 around New York City). Stanford President Donald Kennedy admits that professors are rejecting jobs there because of housing costs. Says University of California Faculty Housing Coordinator Afton Crooks: "Our recruitment and retainment have been seriously affected. They come out to Berkeley or to the other campuses, price homes and tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pricing the Profs out of Eden | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...plus light entertainments that appear each month? "It's not Joyce Carol Gates under a pseudonym," says Gallon's Sullivan. Given the turgid prose style, that much, at least, is certain. Novice authors, in fact, tend to be housewives supplementing the family income, like Parris Afton Bonds of Lewisville, Texas. Bonds spends her day with five sons, ages one to 13, and plots her amours "after the diapers are rinsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: From Bedroom to Boardroom | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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