Word: embarks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their cultural and economic and social standards. To save themselves, they must find some race willing to reshape the Universe, for they themselves are too specialized and well adjusted to the job. They find this race on Earth, and under the direction of vast think machines, the Earthlings embark...
...that night, the banished filed resignedly out the Black Palace's back gate. Each got 20 pesos, three packs of cigarettes and a packet of food, then climbed into a guarded boxcar drawn up on a spur. At Manzanillo, 600 dark miles later, the convicts would embark in a troopship headed up the coast. After that, for unending years, life for them will be only the salt and henequen of the Three Marys...
...matter of choice when they wrote: "It may be that the kind of woman who goes to college, and stays there until she gets her degree, is simply by nature the self-sufficient type who does not regard marriage as woman's ultimate destiny-and will not embark upon it except under the most promising circumstances...
Looking over his paycheck, the graduate who went in for general education has some reason to be sorry he did not specialize ("It is regrettable," said one alumnus, "but culture is inedible"). The humanities major tends to embark on an unprofitable career as teacher (27%), clergyman (/5%), or artist (1%). Even if a humanities man goes into business, the chances are about one to four he will end up just eking out his living (only 6% of the specialists find themselves in that position). The social scientists do even worse in business: 31% hold "rank-and-file" jobs...
...subsidies. The reason is that once a shipper gets a subsidy he is straitjacketed by a host of rules. Examples: he cannot quit a subsidized route even if it turns out to be a money loser; he must replace old ships with vessels made in U.S. yards; he cannot embark on any auxiliary or any new enterprise not connected with shipping...