Word: mismatched
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Then came the main event, a mixed singles mismatch between one excellent tennis player in her prime and another champion pathetically past his. To make matters worse, right at the start the psycher seemed to become the psychee...
Students of labor markets point to several reasons for the mismatch between discouraged job hunters and empty jobs. Low wages make some jobs (domestic work, light manufacturing) less attractive than the dole. Lack of good public transportation effectively prevents city workers from reaching suburban jobs. Many vocational schools have equipped students with outmoded skills. The heavy burden of employee fringe benefits and employer contributions to Social Security and unemployment-compensation funds prompts some big employers, like those in the auto industry, to work their labor forces overtime instead of hiring. The Nixon Administration has sharply reduced funds to hire ghetto...
...usual mismatch of babies and lovers Characterizes the plot. One of two gondolieri--in the first act both marry--Gondolier he allegedly...
Once again the Crimson must make the biennial trip to Providence, but there is little evidence to indicate that anything but another mismatch is in the works. Harvard, under the national swimming ambitions of second-year coach Don Gambril, has already downed its first three opponents in convincing fashion and is coming off a 69-44 dunking of one of the Eastern League powers, Dartmouth...
...mismatch was Harvard's soundest thrashing of the year, with the Williams racquetmen reaching double figures just ten times in the 28 15-point rounds...