Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many of these students, venturing off the academic beaten path has added an element of fun to what can often be a grueling task...
Although Joslin is not sure what career path she will follow, she is thinking of attending graduate school in London and pursuing a career in some aspect of international relations, perhaps with the Foreign Service or in journalism. Spending last summer as an intern at The New York Times in Boston sparked a greater interest in this field...
...some sports the junior varsity serves as a principle feeder for the varsity, but in basketball--where outside recruiting is relied upon heavily--the path to the varsity team does not usually lead through...
...inherited physical susceptibility $ to alcoholism and perhaps to abuse of other substances as well. There may also be a psychological vulnerability. Experts dismiss the popular idea that there is a set of personality traits, say, low self-esteem and a streak of perfectionism, that puts people on the path to dependency. Explains Dr. Sheila Blume, director of a treatment program at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, N.Y.: "There is no evidence of a single addictive personality type. You cannot go to a class of junior high kids and pick out who will become an addict." Nonetheless, addicts do have...
...macho war hero parachutes into camp and romances all the women) and % the loquaciously self-important, as if it were a sorority bull session with grenade sound effects. But the writing is a notch above standard-issue TV fare, and the show follows its own adventurous, if sometimes bumpy, path...