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...offered this year with CUE guide average scores of 2.5 or below for both "workload" and "difficulty." Your fellow students thought they were a breeze in the recent past, so maybe you too can pump up a sagging GPA while maintaining that essential 12 hours of snooze-time per diem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Quickie Guide to Picking Courses | 9/16/1994 | See Source »

...sale in January. Despite the sluggish market, a buyer miraculously appeared. Brown negotiated a four-month leaseback, but the family had to move out before confirmation. They no longer have meals together in their eat-in kitchen because there is no kitchen. School tuition is paid on a per diem basis. Every book, picture album, game and bicycle is in storage. Even if the new owners hadn't moved in, Brown couldn't go home again. In preparation for his new post, he divested himself of his real estate business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Public Eye: Is Brown Bagged? | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Walsh was convicted March 28 of 41 counts of bank fraud in connection with a scheme to swindle Diem of $2.9 million. Walsh concealed second mortgages granted to cover a 20 percent down payment on loans...

Author: By Julie H. Park, | Title: Experts Suggest Walsh is innocent | 5/4/1994 | See Source »

...keeps the group going and the deceit that is their ultimate demise is a reminder that youth, and excitement (and ultimately any moment) are never everlasting. The viewer realizes the partnership between Bonnie and Clyde is only as strong as fortuitous circumstance allows. "Bonnie and Clyde" bears this "carpe-diem" message in a most vibrant, electric...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: Faye Love Breaks the Bank | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...part-timers with some benefits. Others work by the hour, the day or the duration of a project, receiving only a paycheck without benefits of any kind. The rules of their employment vary widely and so do the attempts to label them. They are called short-timers, per-diem workers, leased employees, extra workers, supplementals, contractors -- or in IBM's ironic computer-generated parlance, "the peripherals." They are what you might expect: secretaries, security guards, salesclerks, assembly-line workers, analysts and CAD/CAM designers. But these days they are also what you'd never expect: doctors, high school principals, lawyers, bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disposable Workers | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

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