Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...job hasn't been offered," Healy said. But even if a bid were made, the city clerk informed the council, a municipal ordinance would preclude him from accepting such a position for a period of two years after leaving city government...
...Johnson doesn't always turn to students before making his decisions. This summer, student members of PBHA's governing body complained that Johnson did not allow them adequate input into the selection of a new professional projects coordinator. The coordinators' job is largely to work with students...
...IHAD a job last year sorting articles for a sociologist who was writing a book on New York City. My mission was to read newspaper articles and then put them in manila folders with labels like "Homelessness," "Ethnicity" and "Transportation." Although most of my folders had straightforward labels, one of them was mysteriously marked "NIMBY...
...Samson retire to a cottage in Cornwall and argue over lunch? More important, will Deighton or anyone else find a menace to replace the Wall? Lite politics, whole-wheat pasta and the melting of the polar ice caps are all alarming, but they don't quite do the job. A lot of fictional heroes with turned-up rain-coat collars must be worrying about their pensions...
...Rifkin, such criticism is merely evidence that he is on the right track. "My job," he says, "is to point out some of the problems that might arise with new technologies. Scientists should show us how these new technologies work. Then society, not scientists, should decide if it wants to use them. Scientists are not gods; they're just technicians. They're just human beings, with all the good and bad intentions of everyone else. If you criticize them at all, you're stopping the drive toward utopia. But there has to be both sides...