Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the University focuses on its students, it is often in a paternalistic effort to manage their lives. Sometimes, the University has good reason: mandatory meetings for first-years to get to know their proctors, placement tests for required courses, making sure that dorm rooms violate no state health codes. This time, in the debate over co-ed rooming at Adams House, the University should let students mind their own business...
Years later, their efforts were rewarded when they isolated and purified a factor--HIF--from the hypothalamus. Chemists at Columbia analyzed the chemical and determined that it differed from its plant counterpart only by the three-dimensional placement of certain atoms...
...bleak employment outlook has created a jam at college placement offices, where new graduates vie with unemployed older ones for the few available jobs. "We're seeing a lot more of our graduates from a year ago coming into our office and competing with the current graduates," says Jean Hernandez, director of the University of Washington career center. At the same time, she adds, "students are more anxious than they were four years ago. In checking resumes, I see more students looking for work outside their majors and more who are doing jobs that don't require college degrees...
...center provides a variety of housing programs, including free and low-cost units, and a number of counseling and job placement opportunities...
...Lower East Side, does well in school and dreams of becoming a pediatrician. But perhaps half the AIDS orphans could wind up living in the streets or falling into an overloaded foster-care system. "We're seeing some 3,000 children in the Chicago area who will need placement very soon," says Cathy Blanford of the Lutheran Social Services of Illinois. "I expect the numbers will grow way beyond what anyone can imagine...