Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Number four, Sally Roberts, played what she described as "the most disastrous match of my entire career," falling to Williams, 6-3, 6-1. Miller fared little better, as Sue Silver (a transfer from Smith where she played number one on the tennis team) handed her a 6-1, 6-4 defeat...
William A. O'Neil, director of financial aid at the Kennedy School, attributed discrepancies in living-expenses allocations to student career goals...
...York City, Washington, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and other large cities. At these firms, the competition is brutal, and perhaps one in four survive to become partners six years later. The rest spin off to smaller firms, corporate jobs, Government work or other fields. The range of possible career paths is staggering. With the law explosion, a new member of the bar can elect to try a judicial clerkship, criminal law, tax practice, public interest work, corporate law, legal aid or work in public defenders' offices, a prosecutorial job at the state or federal level, Government practice...
...Japanese-born wife Foumi had their second child. They named the infant Noah. At the time, Greenfeld was attracting attention as a resolutely independent journalist, and a critic with a nose for new talent and a style that cut effortlessly through literary baloney. Foumi was cultivating her own career as a painter, and together the Greenfelds looked forward to lives rich in individual achievements and family pleasures...
Josh and Foumi made the medical rounds, only to have hopes replaced by cold facts: Noah was incurably brain damaged; more experts were interested in scientific and career concerns than in the child's plight; state institutions were poorly run dumping grounds. Ultimately, the Greenfelds acknowledged the problem that was basically theirs alone. "Have a crazy kid," wrote Josh, "and get to understand the gut meaning of a society...