Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equipping them to adapt themselves to a variety of jobs." According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the typical American changes his job seven times during his lifetime, and his career three times. Francis Fisher, director of Harvard's career services office, goes further, arguing that "we must break the assumption that the purpose of education is to prepare for work." He and other educators contend that liberal-arts training, whatever its salability in the job market, is a necessary resource in a civilized society...
...mini-household words, and in the case of Woodward and Bernstein, real folk heroes." (Well, sort of.) The moviemakers were particularly on guard against showing the "Woodstein team," as they came to be known in Washington, as anything other than what they were?hungry reporters desperately eager for a break. But the film will augment what they have since become: very rich reporters in the anomalous and, for most newsmen, disquieting position of being more famous than many of their sources...
...careless a lot of times," Hunt said. "I had a lot of opportunities to break but I was lobbing poorly and that's the way it goes...
Then the regulars attack--Brown, MIT and Princeton, Navy and Penn on consecutive weekends--all with abnormal strength in what could be Harvard's year of abnormal un-strength. Each crew will attempt to break the Crimson for what each sees as long overdue defeat in the Eastern Sprints on May 16th...
...minute break just before halftime in this semester, you're down 21 zip, and all you wanna do is get into the locker room fast--maybe when you re-emerge things will be better. Or better yet, maybe they won't have a guard posted and you can slip out the back door, never to return...