Word: breedings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quad residents are a breed apart...
...they ran the party -- and the nation -- during the Eisenhower years, combining a progressive outlook on social issues with a pragmatic one on international affairs. They are nearly all gone now, shunted aside by the more populist conservatism of the Age of Reagan. One of the last of that breed, the soft-spoken, easygoing Charles McC. Mathias Jr. of Maryland, is leaving the Senate in exactly the manner in which he served there: with quiet detachment and dignity...
...breed of temporary worker is jumping into the U.S. labor market: the temp professional. In growing numbers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, computer experts and college professors willing to punch in and out for up to $150 an hour are being snapped up by firms and institutions eager for their services but only for a while. Professionals now account for an estimated 11% of the 800,000 Americans who work each day in temporary positions. The top-drawer temps, whose numbers are increasing about 10% a year, are profoundly changing the $6 billion temporary-service industry...
...STORM RISING, Clancy 1 3 WANDERLUST, Steel 2 4 LAST OF THE BREED, L'Amour 4 5 A MATTER OF HONOR, Archer...
Like other top schools, Harvard is struggling to find more good black students, who now account for only 7% of Cambridge undergraduates. One key reason for the shortage: substandard elementary and secondary schools, which tend to breed in major cities and rural areas, cut their pupils' chances for entry into a top college. "There is no way," says Jewett, "that we can make up for twelve missed years of education." The problem is intensified by the fact that a bare 1.4% of university faculty -- prime role models -- are black. This too is typical of many other universities. But Harvard faced...