Word: meeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Past participants in the marathon yesterday praised the event as an enjoyable way to meet people and support worthy causes...
When Marlene Dietrich arrived at London's Heathrow Airport one day a few years ago, she was in no mood to meet the group of photographers waiting for her. "Go away!" she shouted. "You are all morons. Why don't you get a proper job?" And they laughed and made her picture and loved her, as they have through the years, for she always gladdened their hearts -- and their eyes. They didn't mind what she said, because they knew they had a proper...
...term goals, beyond hoping for a "kinder, gentler" nation, have been lost in a miasma of public relations stunts. The President's recent "education summit" with the nation's Governors produced some interesting ideas about national standards but little about how to pay the costs of helping public schools meet them. His much trumpeted war against drugs was more an underfinanced skirmish. Bush told voters last year that he is an environmentalist, but the most significant clean-air proposals put forth this year -- stringent new standards on automobile emissions -- were adapted from California's strict limits for the 1990s...
...software, the instructions that make the machine work. When programs like Lotus 1-2-3 made the personal computer a runaway success in the early 1980s, IBM and other firms made a strategic decision to let Japan supply the demand for memory chips that U.S. chipmakers could not meet. The Japanese built costly factories to fabricate an enormous supply of chips. But then their price plummeted way below the cost of production, saddling Japan's conglomerates with huge losses...
...interview career advisors to learn about occupations and gather job hunting advice, ask them to critique your resume. OCS Resume Workshops are held weekly at 12 noon or 4 pm and provide an opportunity for advice and review of your resume. Also, you can make an appointment to meet with a counselor to review your resume and plan your job search strategy...