Word: growing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...UNIX programmer or architect. Yet the timing is perfect for such a bold experiment in the burgeoning field of e-cruiting. Not only is unemployment near record lows, but Silicon Valley is also facing a severe shortage of qualified techies. There are 500,000 vacancies, a number expected to grow to a few million. In such a tight labor market, the Net may be just the tool for the growing ranks of job-hopping free agents to flex their bargaining muscle...
...There?s obviously great concern that this could grow into a more serious conflict," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "With tensions already so high after the Kashmir crisis it?s disturbing that Indian jets would shoot down a propeller-driven Pakistani plane rather than force it out of their air space. Such an action looks calculated to increase tension rather than reduce it." Although Pakistan and India have developed extensive mechanisms to prevent their constant low-level clashes spiraling into war, the latest confrontation only widens the danger. Despite Pakistan?s withdrawal from the Indian side of Kashmir last...
...gets seamless ensemble work from the year's most agreeable, most cannily chosen cast. These, after all, are not-quite stars playing not-quite supermen. They grow in the roles as they grow comfortable in them. By the end they have cobbled together an A-minus comedy about B-plus people. Every other action picture is about the impossibly outsize Them; this one is about the just barely heroic Us. It's about making the best of your small talents--about looking in the mirror and, despite all evidence to the contrary, smiling back...
...family moved to David's home state of Maryland, in 1984, she decided to run for a congressional seat. The district was strongly Republican and the Democrats were in disarray, but Kathleen told her husband, "Someone has to run, and this is where my kids are going to grow up." She ran as a Townsend and lost. "That loss was good for her," says former U.S. Senator Joe Tydings, who has been close to the family for decades. "Kathleen is just like her father. She is a learner. She had a lot to learn...
...bunch of Manhattan hipster kids and broadcast their bizarre observations and anecdotes: it's the stuff of an irritating jeans ad or a surprisingly winsome and funny animated series. "Inspired by" actual interviews with youngsters, the engaging boho characters do, well, nothing much, yet they don't grow dull or self-consciously hip. If the rambling plots and pitch-perfect dialogue remind one of Slacker, they also remind one of little else...