Word: dead-end
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...Howard Butler has acquired the anti-hero's stock repertory of problems: dissolving marriage, dead-end advertising job in New York, rebellious teen-age daughter, losing bouts with the bottle. So he deserts his wife and exurban New Jersey home to run a tree nursery on a nearby ten acres...
...when it settled a case of sex discrimination brought against AT&T. The EEOC not only insisted that the phone company set goals for giving women management and line repair jobs, but also for making men switchboard operators, a once-respectable, starting clerical job which became a low-paying dead-end position when taken over by women
LIKE Walt Whitman, Ginsberg at his worst is unbelievably bad. His indiscriminate wanderings lead only to dead-end, dead-Beat poetry. But his failures throw his strong accomplishments in experimental poetry into greater relief. The form behind his seemingly formless poetry lies in his own personal senses of sound and breathing rhythm. He juxtaposes his words as much by their sounds as by their sense...
...often in the recent developments in the fast expanding scandal, Counsel Dean emerged as a key and mysterious figure. TIME has learned that it was Dean, surprisingly, who was most instrumental in getting the grand jury off what seemed like a dead-end course. Washington Correspondent Sandy Smith reconstructed the following chronology...
...twice-reduced shuttle will not amount to an early version of a true shuttle, and we believe that even it has been underfunded. A true "first generation" shuttle would cost $5.5 billion to develop, and would use only hydrogen as fuel; Nixon's version uses solid fuel, a dead-end idea, and would cost $5.15 billion to develop, if it isn't phased out, too, as it almost was this year...