Word: decentering
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...Harvard was a big deal. To lose that job for that reason means you’re blacklisted, means you cannot get a decent job anywhere in the United States,” she says. “That is a commission of a crime by Harvard University...
...least a little trite. Furthermore, I am resisting the male urge of using favorite scenes and lines from classic college movies (Animal House, Road Trip, etc.) to take the place of meaningful reflection. Suffice it to say that I owe any remaining sanity to my roommates, any decent grades to my parents and high school teachers, and any clarity to a handful of professors, lecturers, and good friends...
Caploe married Marguerite Esta Higgins in June 1956. He describes his first wife as “a very decent, strong, and good person, and very loving?...
...Himalayan foothills. The two men, wrote Jan Morris in TIME three years ago - and as a young journalist in the Everest party, Morris had known them both - were "cheerful and courageous fellows doing what they liked doing, and did, best." In their lives after Everest, their reputations as decent, honest individuals remain secure...
...vacations with his wife. When the small computer-services company he worked for in Raleigh, N.C., went out of business in the summer of 2001, Kimball, now 58, was unconcerned. "I had never had a problem finding work," he recalls. But times had changed. He struggled to land a decent job, and the stress contributed to a heart condition that required surgery. Finally, a mortgage firm that had turned down Kimball for a loan-officer opening asked him to manage its website. He jumped at the offer. His new annual salary...