Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Applied to San Francisco, it means that a second quake there in a year or two would have a much greater impact. We could expect to see a significant out-migration from California," says geographer Curtis C. Roseman. "One quake doesn't do the job...
...recent Princeton University graduate chatted up a well-connected dinner partner and found himself a job at Salomon Brothers, a prominent New York City investment house. Upon entry, Michael Lewis was presented with a choice of two career tracks. A commercial banker took deposits and made loans. He was not, Lewis learned, "any more trouble than Dagwood Bumstead. He had a wife, a station wagon, 2.2 children and a dog that brought him his slippers." An investment banker, on the other hand, was a "member of a master race of deal makers" who "possessed vast, almost unimaginable talent and ambition...
...grown stale. Every East European nation faces to some extent a similar litany of consumer complaints: food and fuel shortages, inadequate salaries that are declining in purchasing power, massive budget deficits. It presumes a lot to think that East Europeans will sit quietly through the price hikes, plant closings, job layoffs and other austerity measures ahead. "It's a race against time," says Dominique Moisi, deputy director of the French Institute for International Relations. "Can the democratization of politics beat the Third-Worldization of their economies...
...addicts are usually poor blacks and Hispanics from the ghetto. In real life, the problem is much broader, engulfing large numbers of professionals who smoke crack on the job...
...headed the Foreign Office for less than four months but served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury for two years. Rumor has it that he is Thatcher's new favorite to be her successor. Major's replacement: Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, 59, who presumably brings to his new job a mastery of foreign intrigue. In his spare time Hurd has written nine mystery thrillers since...