Word: job
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also signed up to live with most of myroommates again the next year. Somehow Harvard'sstrange system of arranging rooming groups haddone a good job...
...less than six months on the job, Kemp also has suspended or canceled two other programs: HUD's rental rehabilitation program and a loan insurance program that financed such luxury projects as golf course condominiums...
Duke didn't quite fit the jock stereotype. Sure he wore sweats and a baseball cap all the time--the standard jock outfit (he soon stopped wearing the cap after Glenn started a rumor that it covered his bald spot). But Duke had a part-time job, spent more time studying than anyone I knew and went to bed no later than 12:30 a.m. on weeknights. The only bad part is that when I slumped into bed an hour or two later, Duke was already snoring gale-force winds...
...hands, so I asked the editor at the Daily Local News, "Why don't I write a column for you?" I started the column for $22 a week. It was usually very misleading, inaccurate and often quite offensive and irresponsible. Then the Miami Herald offered me a job...
...Everything was at a boil," she felt, "and I couldn't stay away." Eventually Wilentz quit her job as a TIME staff writer to live in Haiti for nearly two years. The end result, The Rainy Season, is a portrait of post- Duvalier Haiti that verges on the Didionesque. Which is to say, it has sharply observed accounts of such local color as voodoo and zombis, and a tone of cool detachment mixed with scorn for the social wreckage spawned by even well-intentioned American meddling. Yet at its narrative best The Rainy Season is the kind of world-class...