Word: catch-up
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...given jobs as hairdressers and bathhouse attendants. Shanghai last month tried to provide make-work for several hundred jobless young by paying them 53? a day to scramble up bamboo scaffolding and help refurbish the city's many stately but decaying Victorian office buildings. There are even special catch-up courses for young people. At the Xiang Ming Middle School, near Shanghai's old French Concession, former Red Guards show up each night to resume their interrupted education. Says School Principal Jiang Xiang: "In our discussions there can be different opinions. They can even admire the countries...
Maybe so, but it is suspected that this spring's energy troubles have outpaced Carter's comprehension, as well as that of most others. Now he may be in a catch-up race that could determine both bis future and that of the nation...
...definitely intend to offer better catch-up training for those who are actually applying it out in the real world," she added...
...press had to play catch-up in Iran. The Shah himself has long been on the grand tour of editors, anchormen, roving correspondents. But after the New York Times closed down its bureau in February 1977, there wasn't one American reporter based in Tehran. The result has been what correspondents call "parachuting" into a place, arriving like firemen after a fire is visibly raging...
...whole Crimson team exploded in an ecstatic, 100-man modern dance routine at that point, and the ground-based UMass attack failed to play any kind of respectable catch-up ball as the clock...