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Word: houre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other schools, students have flocked to special job-hunting courses. Stanford, for example, is offering seniors special courses in Survival Tactics in the Job Market, How to Blow an Interview, and Opportunities in Biology. Frank Heuston, a career counselor at Northeastern, is teaching a special eight-hour seminar in how to land a job. Heuston acknowledges that his techniques "sometimes verge on the unethical" (for instance, he tells seniors to hang around executive bars, where they might meet prospective employers), but he says they work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Job Outlook: Awful | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...states, new highway signs carry distances in both kilometers and miles. On I-94 in Minnesota, for example, a road sign outside Fergus Falls reads, ST. CLOUD 100 MILES OR 161 KILOMETERS. Other signs note that 55 m.p.h. equals 88 kilometers per hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Think Metric | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...people would pay. The author also would have the Government ensure that every working American earns the equivalent of about half the national average income, or between $6,000 and $7,000. One way to accomplish that goal, says Okun, would be for all workers earning the $2.10-an-hour minimum wage to get a subsidy of half that much from Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEORY: Efficient Equality | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...enough of a writer to know I should end the piece here; it is what is known as a good closer. You can hear everything but the chapel bells ringing at the end of the hour. But I want to go on to one thing else that needs saying and is peculiar to this strange, huge, shapeless class. Someone at CBS, talking about the intramural struggles taking place there, said. "What you're observing is not a war of liberation or even a drive for power itself, but a war of dislodgement...

Author: By Robert Crichton, | Title: Non-Traditional Class of 1950 Is an Intellectual Catch Basin | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...half-hour show followed featuring Muhammed taking digs at Howard Cosell. "Howard wanted to be a boxer but they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough... Blacks like Cosell cause they like to see a white guy make a fool of himself...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Professor Muhammed Ali Delivers Lecture; Poems and Parables Fill Talk on Friendship | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

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