Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--A majority of first-year college students consider their bachelor's degree a step toward graduate school, while education rivals business as a job goal, according to a newspaper survey of 900 students in the Class of 1993 at New England colleges...
...similar question with multiple answers possible, 53 percent of the students said college was a step to further educational goals, 37 percent wanted a liberal arts education and 21 percent sought from college the skills to get a job...
Since crime reports are published in newspapers, many victims are afraid to do anything about gay bashing because they know there are no civil rights statutes to protect them against job or housing discrimination, says David M. Osborne, aide to State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge...
...drought threatened to devastate the village's wheat and vegetable crops, Wu proposed that water from the Yellow River -- unused previously because it was so muddy -- be tapped immediately. Within 36 hours, 4,000 Chinese, including Wu, were digging a new irrigation ditch two miles long. The entire job was completed in twelve hours...
...Shanghai)) and was immediately assigned here," he says. "I don't know anything about the work here, so I can't judge product quality very well. I wish I could go somewhere else, but I may be stuck here for the rest of my life. I could learn the job, but moving up is almost impossible without guanxi" -- that word again -- "which I don't have. If I had it, I maybe could have arranged it so I wasn't sent here in the first place...