Word: dead-end
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...works in a dull, hard, sometimes hazardous and completely dead-end job for about half the hourly rate coal miners get, and who will have to pay increased energy prices because of their inflated demands, I am totally without sympathy for their self-pitying whining about the slavelike conditions they claim to work under...
MINORITIES AND WOMEN. The Federal Government will issue stronger guidelines to prevent discrimination. To help minorities and women who may now be trapped in dead-end jobs in the inner cities, the Administration plans to develop programs enabling them to go job hunting in areas where better employment opportunities are available...
...conservation-inducing the U.S. to use up more slowly the oil and gas that the nation knows it can count on producing. Conservation is necessary, but not sufficient: at best it only postpones the ultimate day of reckoning. As Laird observes: "Conservation alone is a slow walk down a dead-end street...
...wounded the other in the arm. Commandeering an Opel at gunpoint from a passing motorist, he and his companion sped off in the direction of the highway to Stuttgart. As three carloads of Singen police gave chase, the pair took a wrong turn that brought them to a dead-end barrier near a brook. In the ensuing battle, a policeman grabbed the fleeing man's submachine gun and wounded the woman in the leg. The man was shot in the head. Ballistic tests later showed that the same gun had been used in the Buback murders...
...still recovering from the birth of a son three weeks earlier, to help tie up her husband in the bathroom. That done, he grabbed a steak knife and assaulted her. He then took her with him as he fled in the Carver car. Sheriffs deputies captured him on a dead-end road a few hours later...