Word: downturns
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...simply living through a downturn, one of those periodic dead spots wherein the muses take a smoke break? Has the country's artistic talent been siphoned off by sexier, better-paying media with bigger audiences? (TV has been suspiciously good lately.) Or could the professionalization of "creative writing," in the form of scores of M.F.A. programs, actually be retarding the progress of contemporary literature--hammering eccentric geniuses into workshop-style conformity, then drowning them out by handing diplomas to their mediocre peers by the bushel...
...Ashley was 16 and worried about her upcoming exams. She had been having headaches for the last eight weeks and they were getting worse. Two months before, she had broken up with her boyfriend; her grades took a definite downturn; and her sister got a pet hamster for her birthday. Her headaches seemed to be the worst in the evening and the morning, and though Motrin helped a little, they occasionally were bad enough to awake her from sleeping. The pain was all over but seemed worse over her sinuses and "behind her eyes." She had had no trauma...
...beating Iona 11-10 in double overtime in the third-place game. At Easterns the Crimson finished seventh, beating the Gaels again, this time 9-5 in the seventh-place game. After a fourth-place finish at Easterns in Farrar’s first season with the team, a downturn could have been expected, as Harvard had only three seniors this year. While the team struggled early on, Farrar had the team staying in games from the beginning and playing hard. “Coach Farrar really helped motivate us, had us working as a team,” junior...
...Kennedy School faced hard times at the turn of the millennium. The SARS epidemic and Sept. 11 terrorist attacks contributed to the fiscal downturn, according to a Melodie L. Jackson, a spokeswoman for the school...
...able to dump your company before it dumps you.? When companies are hungry for talent, as many are today, you can drive your hardest bargain. Negotiate stock options and performance bonuses, or work on commission. Don?t be shy. After all, if your job may disappear in the next downturn it?s only fair that your pay be hinged to today?s healthy profits...