Word: dead-end
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...From high school suicide attempts to heavy self-indulgence to smack, James Taylor has been exactly what a lot of unhappy and often upper-middle class were looking for. He's finished now, though--replaced by different brands of navel-gazing, and it's too bad about the introspective dead-end, because at times near the beginning of his career Taylor looked as though he might emerge as a talented guitar-picker who had a relaxed and down-home North Carolina road music. By the end the dentist's office radio stations were playing JT. Anyway, what's left...
Such administrators are restricted to dealing with minority affairs and thus are isolated from the general decision-making process. Not only are their posts limited in scope, but they also fail to provide the training needed for advancement. A number of blacks believe they are in little more than dead-end jobs...
...familiar situation. Gareth O'Donnell is a lonely and introverted young Irishman, uneasy with the bravado of his fellows, and unable to open himself up to his father or the girl he lacked the courage to marry. At age 25 he has decided to leave the dead-end of village life for the land of air-conditioning and color TV, where "the devil himself holds sway and lust is everywhere indulged in shamelessly." On the eve of his departure, he reviews for the last time his unresolved memories of the life he is leaving and his hopes and dreams...
...unresolved court suit is just part of the reason that questions of how Largey died and what role the police may have had in his death are still unanswered. There have also been two independent investigations of the incident that reached similar conclusions and reached similar dead-end fates...
Liberals have favored such programs since the crisis years of the Depression and the New Deal. What is surprising now is the willingness of conservatives to consider funding jobs that they have long regarded as dead-end tasks, which produce paychecks but little training. President Nixon vetoed a measure in 1970 that would have provided $10 billion for public-service jobs over four years, but later relented and signed the Emergency Employment Act of 1971, which has now expired. It spent $2.4 billion in putting more than 650,000 people (37% Viet Nam veterans) to work. The EEA was replaced...