Word: placement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while it even looked as if All-American Howard Sands was going to become Harvard's fifth casualty in the singles competition. After quickly falling behind Princeton's Ted Farnsworth, who had excellent ball placement and resembled a backboard when he returned his shots. Sands rebounded to nip Farnsworth in the first set, 7-5, and to manhandle him in the second...
Although college seniors are receiving fewer job offers this year, average starting salaries have risen, according to a recent survey by the Pennsylvania-based College Placement Council...
Though Law School placement officials observe no appreciable change in the number of graduates going into public sector jobs. Villarreal says that activism will have a long-term impact. "I think it's good because it makes people multi-faceted." she points out. "I will probably work for a firm, but I have a strong commitment to classes that will not be my clients, and I will try to help those people," she explains...
...kept Springfield in the game Often the passers overshot the mark, sending the ball too close to the net and handcuffing setters Brad Martin and Tom Houlihan. When the ball got within inches of the net, Martin and Houlihan had to jump set the ball, limiting their choice of placement. Springfield could tell where the sets had to go, and Harvard spikers found themselves up against some powerful double blocks...
...does thrill to it. Rhetoric though they be, Miller's fiery prophecies of revolution, Reiffel's well-padded complacency and the workers' vignettes of woe create a momentum that overcomes the pragmatic 1980s assumption that "nothing is ever that simple." Director Josh Milton's fine sense of timing and placement melds the difficult mancuvers of lockstep group motion and robot-like dance rhythms to reinforce a visceral feeling of brewing social pressure, of the inevitable coming explosion...