Word: placement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Overall, she's a tough defensive player, and the best bunter I've ever seen. her placement on the bunts would exasperate any defender. Lisa has honed that skill to a science: once in a game against Princeton she bunted on base three times each with the infield moved in on her, he adds...
...Yearbook has enough money in a building trust Fund to buy a permanent home, Mahoney said, adding that its "cramped" quarters--caused by the combination last year of the Graduate Office of Placement with the undergraduate OCS-OCL--gave the Yearbook incentive to find new headquarters...
...meeting between Epps and Mallon came less than a week after Mallon met with two freshman who had left their names and phone numbers on an unapproved poster in Canaday Hall which offered information about "Summer Work $3000-4000." The placement of an unapproved poster, solicitation for summer work in a dormitory and the use of a school telephone and dorm room in recruiting for a business enterprise all violate College rules...
...classic (and actual) case of summer employment rip-off involved a Harvard student this summer. One student pursued an ad in OCS-OCL's summer jobs file for a head-tennis-pro position, financed her own trip to Washington D.C. to try out for the job at a "placement" agency, was given the job, left the required $50 deposit, and waited happily for June to begin work. The placement agency had no one with any knowledge of tennis skills or playing experience; the plot was revealed when they hired four students on an adjacent court with sub-intramural tennis abilities...
...multi-digit law suits with multi-digit lawyer fees. Small claims provides a service to mete out justice in the everyday affairs of the consumer, and for a small fee ($5) anyone can bring forth his or her grievance. As for the hapless student ripped off by the tennis placement agency, she never got justice, but if she had tried a few of the alternatives, she might be ahead today...