Word: dead-end
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...notes the "dead-end" nature of junior faculty posts in Social Studies, recommending the creation of several junior faculty positions to be shared jointly with another department--a step which would allow junior faculty to aspire to tenured posts in the department...
...worst economic mess since the Great Depression. At the aheart of the problem is the condition of our major cities, which house the majority of the ultrapoor. The urban poor are trapped in a system which offers them insufficient handouts on the one side, and on the other, dead-end jobs...
After taking last year off, Switchenko--whose name sounds like "a dead-end weapon" according to McCurdy--repeated his 1978 stellar performance when he outraced the legendary Harvard trio of Eddie Sheehan, Peter Fitzsimmons and Mark Meyer...
Something tells Earl not to give money and car to a total stranger, but "to have an outright enemy as one's nearest neighbor, when one lived at the termination of a dead-end road, with only a wooded hollow beyond, a weed-field across the street, was unthinkable." What follows during the next 24 hours suggests that Earl is right to worry. Bad enough that Ramona accuses him of trying to rape her and that Harry claims to be the victim of his homosexual advances; worse that Enid placidly believes both charges. Keese keeps throwing his new neighbors...
...nearly 18, but she looks the youngest; in the Malick film, shot three years ago, she seems no older than twelve. Brooke Shields, 14, appeared in Alice, Sweet Alice at nine. Tatum O'Neal, who is 15 now, broke into the big time at nine, playing her dead-end father Ryan's dead-end kid in Paper Moon. Some of the roles these child-women have taken are precociously and shockingly erotic, and some are proper and conventional. But whatever they are asked to do, these surprising children and their adventurous directors are showing the camera new ways to look...