Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While 41.3 percent of the graduates surveyed cited "high income potential" as an important criteria in their career decision, almost 90 percent selected "intellectual challenge" and 71 percent "the opportunity to be helpful to others" as significant considerations...
...make our impact by pumping out large quantities of people," said Jerome T. Murphy, associate dean at the Ed School. "We make it by training high quality people who can make an impact, and by setting up a precedent program which other schools can emulate...
...19th century mind, with its penchant for the scientific and the mechanical, the camera was the supreme mechanism, a trap for facts. Capable of capturing high detail, operated with a minimum of human intervention, it seemed from the first to have a special purchase on the truth. William Henry Fox Talbot, the Englishman who was one of photography's inventors, was merely summing up what would become the judgment of the day when he called his new process the "pencil of nature...
Increasingly, the photographers also brought high-speed color film to the fray. By the end of the '70s, color photos of the week's events had become the staple of TIME and Newsweek, which had moved into the void left by the collapsing picture magazines. For many traditionalists, color marked a final capitulation to the values of television. But a group of younger photojournalists would begin to paint the news in bold colors. Like the U.S. after Viet Nam, these new practitioners were no longer satisfied by the old certainties...
Gale warnings were posted early yesterday, rain was heavy in some areas and one ferry was turned back because of rough waters on the San Francisco Bay, authorities said. The Union Ferry Building, the terminus of all ferries when they reach San Francisco, was closed because of high waves and the boats were diverted to a pier about a mile away...