Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blaeser capitalized on the power play as the Harvard defenders--already a little awkward in their new pairings--had to make more adjustments to compensate for the missing Melrose...
...should tell you when you can nextexpect to hear from the company. Follow-up lettersare usually mailed within two to four weeks afterthe initial interview. It is unusual for someoneto be invited for a second interview at the timeof the first interview. Asking for one puts theinterviewer in an awkward position...
...timing of Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to East Germany could not have been more awkward. On the 40th anniversary of the country's founding as a separate socialist state, the government in East Berlin found itself utterly humiliated. Like storm-besieged dikes, the borders of the country had sprung one leak after another, and thousands of refugees were pouring out. The routine anniversary visit threatened to turn into another diplomatic nightmare for the Soviet President, fraught with the kind of tensions and prodemocracy demonstrations that marred his trip to China last spring. It was Gorbachev's message of change, after...
Kinder said the Gulf station site is in an awkward position for traffic generally. "There is no convienent way to get there," Kinder said. "It's like trying to explain how to get from Cambridge to Boston using side streets...
...should the Woodstock alumni association tell its offspring? Conversations with friends, especially those raising teenagers, suggest that adults with colorful pharmacological histories face unique problems in following the President's exhortation to "talk to your children about drugs." For such parents, family-style drug education often comes down to awkward choices like lying about their own past, feigning a remorse that they do not feel, or piously ordering their children to read lips rather than re- enact deeds. More subtle messages can get lost in the adolescent fog. One 17-year-old I know well seems to misinterpret his parents...