Word: job
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system, after all, may be riddled with problems that make its collapse inevitable, but unemployment has never been one of them. Mao Zedong's promise of the "iron rice bowl" was the traditional communist guarantee of full employment. However decrepit the economy might be, everyone would always have a job, no matter how economically redundant. You pretend to work and we pretend to pay you. And yet on Friday, even as portraits of Mao were driven through the streets of Beijing, 100 million Chinese face the prospect of joblessness with no social safety...
...think it was mainly mental mistakes," junior midfielder Maisa Badawy said. "The sad thing is, we looked amazing in the first half. [UMass] had no shots, no corners. I don't even think Anya had to touch the ball, our backs did such a great job of keeping the forwards from receiving passes...
...several married couples in University ranks, Harvard has been more than a job--it's been a meeting place, a family and a life's work...
...became a Harvard-Radcliffe couple without ever really intending to," Jane Knowles says. She explains that, at the time, there was hardly another job in the area more removed from her husband...
...Knowleses settled easily into Harvard life, and speak fondly of their early years in Cambridge. Jeremy Knowles' research went very well, Jane Knowles was excited by her new job, and both were thrilled by their interaction with new friends and their students...