Word: job
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...Byerly] is a fun place to work, a good place to work, and it's always interesting," Avery says. "I think it was a good training for my current job, just in terms of the familiarity with the College...
Avery recalls applying for a job in admissions in 1989 while also wanting to attend the Graduate School of Education. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitsimmons '67 and Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70 solved the dilemma by encouraging her to do both...
...emotional equivalent of superglue, but it needs points of contact in order to stick. And today, like other family institutions, grandparenthood is being buffeted by the sea changes of the late 20th century. Working against the free exchange of love are high divorce and remarriage rates, job stresses of dual-career parents (and grandparents), a global economy that puts vast distances between family members and a pervasive bias against age spawned by the American obsession with youthfulness...
...Corbett also admits that her unexpected job has its rewards. The best part, she says, is when Tiana says after a bad day, "'You know I love you and Grandpa more than anything in the world,' and that makes it O.K." Some parts of being a parent are worth repeating...
...imbibing its values. "They've learned to keep their own counsel and are proud of themselves," says Pepper Schwartz, a sociologist at the University of Washington. They're just as likely as their male counterparts, she says, to react with "'What's all this whining? Just get the job done...