Word: placement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those without relatives, the search for sponsors takes longer. "There just aren't enough people willing to take them in," says Marisol Alegret, a worker with the International Rescue Committee, one of half a dozen placement agencies helping out. And those who do volunteer as sponsors must be carefully screened. "We don't want to dump these refugees," says Jan Pittman, regional director of the U.S. Catholic Conference, who regularly turns down requests from those looking only for cheap Cuban help. "This isn't like going to the humane society...
Eleanor R. Appel, placement director at the Law School, said yesterday the number of graduates entering private practice will continue to increase because more law firms are recruiting at the school...
Mark K. Crook, a third-year law student who will work in government next fall after spending a summer in a big corporate firm and "hating it," said the placement process "takes up much too much time," and disrupts the fall terms of the second and third years
Dazzling footwork coupled with outstanding standing stickwork gives Predun a basis on which to out-finesse his opponents. Not a particularly hard shooter, he relies instead on shot placement to rack up the goals...
Here is a masterly novel asking placement in the continuum of broader history. It invites and aspires to comparisons with the great novels of literary history. The lines and intersections of characters' lives are set within the dislocating phases of world events. All is understood in the perspective of the slowwheeling geometry of time's sweep. Hazzard handles her saga about the lonely remnants of several families with a stylish cinematic control that gives us a highly structured plot moving in the shadow of Greek tragedy. She roams the world with a chastened recognition of larger patterns beyond individual fate...