Word: crunched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...completed, many of the researchers plan to leave their jobs to join the company full-time. Although the companies are drawing away some untenured professors, post-docs, and technicians, most professors believe that universities are not being drained because the huge market that has developed has lessened the tight crunch in finding positions for graduates. The companies offer much higher financial rewards and have been quite successful in recruiting from graduate student ranks...
...neighbor's house-without telling him-because it was "an eye sore." Director John Carpenter (Halloween) will make the final selection next month, but with the calls coming in from as far away as Houston, it looks as though he has discovered one answer to the real estate crunch: more horror movies...
...benefits as rapidly as it did from 1975 to 1981. Besides saving money for the trust funds and helping to trim the overall budget deficit in the short run, a limit on future increases could also help build up reserves to soften the 21st century's demographic crunch. Any increase decreed now will almost certainly be frozen into the benefit rates paid to future retirees; the cumulative cost over the decades is gigantic...
...only recently--possibly temporarily--changed their policy. Gay and lesbian parents are routinely refused custody of their children on the grounds of "perversion" Unfortunately, most homosexuals do not as Mr. Pattullo suggests, support basic rights bring up the issue of gay parents sometime, and watch what happen') in the crunch, they come up with spurious reasons for not permitting homosexuals simple human rights and dignity. Mr. Pattullo's statement that homosexually lacks heterosexual values (i.e. the "right" ones) is one such excuse, consisting as it does of misinformation and stereotyping...
However John D. Montgomery Government Department chairman, said this week the social sciences job crunch does not appear to be hitting Harvard graduates. He noted that the low number of job offers to Government concentrators reflects that most will continue studying in graduate school this fall...