Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HIRE SOME OF THOSE M.B.A.S TO GO MAKE SOAP IN CINCINNATI. The crash should help U.S. industrial companies by slowing the investment-banking brain drain, in which so many of the most talented business school graduates were going to Wall Street. Recruiters for companies ranging from General Motors to IBM find that 1988 grads are showing a renewed interest in running factories rather than financings...
...avail. "We almost have to beg them to work," he says. "Students don't want to make $6 or $7 an hour anymore, so keeping them on is really hard. It's been bad for about six months. Right now, we'll hire just about anyone with half a brain...
...Doug Flutie fan, you have to wait. You have to ingore the devlish voice in the back of your brain that says the waiting is in vain. He'll never deliver, the voice says. He may never get the chance to deliver...
...slug of bourbon: "We made the evening news." This, admittedly, was a paltry triumph for the nominee of a major party in September, but it conveys the dire mood that had prevailed in the Dukakis camp and the elation over the shifts that were under way. "This is not brain surgery," said Francis O'Brien, a Sasso recruit to the campaign. "Republicans have done it well for years...
Amjad Farooq Alvi, 26, and Basit Farooq Alvi, 19, a pair of self-taught computer experts, are brothers who were raised in a middle-class suburb of Lahore. Amjad is the proprietor of the Brain computer shop. By all accounts he is the stronger programmer. After graduating from Punjab University with a degree in physics, he began devouring electronics texts and teaching himself the rudiments of computer repair and programming. For several years, he earned a living by fixing personal computers. By 1985 he had switched to programming, producing customized software that was, to his dismay, copied and used without...