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Word: partings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They don't want to hire full-time people. They'd prefer to have temp people," says one chef, noting that a formerly full-time position was recently replaced with a part-time...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Dining Halls Face Staff Shortage In Boom Times | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

That said, if you're going to join a final club, please just remember that they are a particularly easy target for a reason. Recognize the tradition of which you are now a part. Whatever their current function--and I am not inclined to believe that the clubs are quite as far removed from their origins as some would argue--the final clubs began as Old Boys' Clubs. They started popping up around the time when the Harvard student body was becoming more socio-economically diverse, and one obvious theory is that the clubs were a reaction to this...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: To the Punch Class of 1999: Just Try To Maintain Some Perspective | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...defenseman Randi Hickox gave Harvard its first man-advantage of the game. Sophomore defenseman Angela Ruggiero swung the puck to Hagerman, her blueline partner on the Crimson power-play unit, at center point. Hagerman sent a slapper towards the net and it found its way past Roberts, thanks in part to a deflection in front by Francisco...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: No. 2 W. Hockey Tops No. 1 UNH | 11/21/1999 | See Source »

...ready for Part II of the space race. China moved closer to playing in the manned space flight game Sunday following a successful unmanned test flight of a spacecraft designed to carry passengers into Earth orbit. The Shenzhou, China's answer to the Apollo capsule, is based on the design of the Russian Soyuz, and the Russians are also helping to construct the life support system and to train the Chinese "taikonauts." China may be able to conduct a manned flight as early as next fall, and officials have even speculated about possibly sending someone to the moon within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's One Small Step for China... | 11/21/1999 | See Source »

Ninety years of die-hard Lone Star tradition came tumbling down early Thursday morning, when 5,000 enormous logs making up the annual Texas A&M bonfire collapsed, killing 12 students and wounding 27 others. The victims were part of a corps of 70 working on the structure that night, taking part in a tradition that TIME Austin correspondent Sam Gwynne calls "sacred:" Erecting the bonfire that's burned on the eve of the hotly contested Texas vs. A&M football game. For people who didn't grow up submerged in Texans' nearly religious pigskin tradition, the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Tradition May Be a Disaster Waiting to Happen | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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