Word: breathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harsh new world of job scarcity in several ways. Most placement officers predict that a larger proportion of bachelor's degree recipients this June will elect to go on to graduate school. The recruiting drought has also produced a new institution in post-graduation planning: the breather year, during which graduates take an extended break before finding a job or continuing their education. Some temporary dropouts travel abroad, others take undemanding jobs as cab drivers, ski patrollers or bartenders to help unwind from the pressures of college life. At Dartmouth, 18% of graduating seniors say that they will take...
After keeping its Ivy League title hopes alive with a, 3-1, victory over Princeton Saturday, Harvard's soccer team will take a breather from conference action today when it tries to maintain its number one ranking in New England against number two rated Tufts at 2 p.m. on the Jumbos' Alumni Field...
...strain on Australian social services. Accordingly, the government has decided to cut the number to 140,000 this year, of whom 100,000 will pay only $25 for their journey; the rest of the cost is paid by the Australian government. The reduction will give schools and hospitals a breather, but it may lead to a labor shortage and wage increases; immigrants currently account for one-quarter of Australia's work force...
Northeastern should provide the breather that Harvard needs. The Huskies are struggling through a mediocre year and own a 7-9 record thus...
...place, Effler repeats the procedure on the right coronary artery and checks to make sure that there is no leakage. This done, he disconnects the patient from the heart-lung machine, restarts the heart with a second electric shock and slips out of the operating room for a breather while an assistant cuts away the mammary artery. A few minutes later, Effler returns, implants that artery in the left ventricular wall and steps back so that his assistants can take over and close the wound...