Word: lookingfor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next door to the Sweetwater, the ZanzibarRestaurant and Tropical Dance Floor was lookingfor people as well, but they were closed, which,to be truthful, was not a disappointment. Down thestreet, a music store window had a sign for dataentry people. I went up three flights of stairsand through two chain-link security doors to betold, "Damn, I asked them to take that sign outlast week." The data entry folk looked nice; theyhad a great view over the Common and a very mellowboss with a mustache and jug ears, who explainedto me that they're the people who rent musicalinstruments...
There have been published reports that theAdministration had been weighing a plan to solicitfunds from foreign governments for the contras inthe event that Congress defeated Reagan's request.But Reagan's National Security Adviser Lt. Gen.Colin Powell said last Sunday, "We are not lookingfor other sources of funding...
...Getting this fellowship has made a big difference in my career," said future fellow Dr. Ruth M. Ruprecht, a Harvard Medical School instructor who will spend next year researching cures forleukemia. "It's a major plus to be able toconcentrate on doing research rather than lookingfor sources of funding," she said...
...schoolfor both a husband and a wife requires a mixtureof talent, perseverance, and sheer luck. For sucha dual-placement to work out, exactly the rightsort of slots have to be available at exactly theright times, and the married scholars each have tobe exactly the sort that the school is lookingfor...
Jewett warned the students not to hope to"duplicate the Herlihys exactly," but rather totry to match their best qualities while lookingfor other appealing attributes. "Don't try tothink of it in terms of reproduction," the deanadded...