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Harvard didn't play poorly in its opener against the Quakers, a very good team. Penn's 15-8, 15-9 victory resulted from sparkling shot placement and an assortment of off-speed dink shots. Most of the time, the Crimson just couldn't get to the half to scoop it up before it hit the floor...
...pleased with the progress of the evacuation. To be sure, there were some hitches. The Israelis complained that, in violation of the agreement, the first group of P.L.O. evacuees had been allowed to take their jeeps with them. The Lebanese protested that the Israelis were objecting to the placement of French peace-keeping forces in central Beirut. More serious was the fighting between Syrian and Israeli forces near the Beirut-Damascus highway in central Lebanon. This caused the P.L.O. to postpone a withdrawal over that route...
...city manager's three-page blueprint, which would establish a cooperative job placement and training program run by the city and developers, lacks too many key provisions, Sullivan said...
...good shape." Says Jonathan Cole, who graduated from Columbia University in 1964 and now teaches sociology there: "We had a feeling then that the universe was expanding. Now these kids seem to feel it's contracting, closing in on them." Walter Brown, head of the job placement office at California State University at Los Angeles, distills the mood of the class of '82 this way: "If a recruiter from Dow Chemical showed up here now and he had jobs, he would be greeted with something resembling Beatlemania...
...morning to 10 at night. From the start, an R.I.T. education is geared toward the molding of marketable skills. In fact, students are periodically required to leave school for an academic quarter to fill temporary jobs at nearby companies, including Kodak and IBM. R.I.T.'s energetic placement office generates ten-year forecasts of the number of jobs that will open up in the different branches of engineering. Those studies show that R.I.T. graduates should continue to be in demand, even in a down economy...