Word: minde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With recruitment visits from high-paying firms always the topic of fall campus conversation, few schools can overpower the lures of lucrative corporate work, experts say. Harvard's clinical instructors note that most of the 6 percent who actually pursue full-time public service probably had that career in mind before they came to law school...
Though that question is never entirely out of mind in California, it usually just withers in the sun, overwhelmed by the seductive arguments of the natural beauty and friendly climate. But now the palpable and sometimes painful memories of the Pretty Big One, as the locals are calling the recent quake, have lent a certain sharpness to the prospects of further shake-ups. Last week scientists were telling Californians that the state faces a 50% chance that another quake as strong as the recent one could happen "at any time" during the next 30 years. "And that means tomorrow," says...
...Scott Fitzgerald once suggested that "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time." If so, America has developed a perverse sort of genius. Yet both national moods -- the urge to deny risk and the urge to insist that we can protect ourselves from it entirely -- may be traceable to the same unfailing optimism. In a culture that has long fancied itself a New World paradise, disasters seem impossible either to imagine or to tolerate. People expect to conduct the pursuit of happiness along a road that...
...hope to maintain the $150,000 mark thisyear. There's no doubt in my mind, actually, thatwe passed it," said Deysach...
...mind a good parody, when it is addition to the real paper," said Wexton...