Word: poole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khazei's vision of public service has inspired a wide variety of people to join the City Year team. The program has been able to tap a pool of recent college and professional school graduates to spur its fundraising effort. In fact, City Year was officially launched in late April at a spring benefit thrown by the Voluntary Fundraisers Association (VFA). VFA, which was founded by a group of young management consultants, teamed up with City Year to target more than 1000 people by mail, inviting them to attend a dance benefit or to contribute by mail...
...number of would-be law students who had high grades in college and top scores on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) has risen disproportionately, making the applicant pool especially strong and competitive, some officials...
...Clarence X. Koo, of Oliver, Wyman & Co. says the market's antics provided his consulting firm with a larger applicant pool. "The difference for us has been probably a bit better selection of people," he says. "Our feeling is that we had a very good crop of people this year...
...other force was Senior Mark Prascak's organization, Undergraduate Histrionics (UGH). Prascak set out to direct interactive plays, staging them in such places as the Adams House swimming pool and among the tables and chairs of the Adams dining hall. Audiences found his confrontational staging and his absurdist revisions of classic plays either inventive or infuriating, but the shows got people talking, even people who hadn't seen them. That is no small achievement, considering that most campus theater productions are seen by few and forgotten by most after their two-weekend runs...
Office work, whether it takes place in the executive suite or the typing pool, has never been regarded as particularly hazardous. After all, there is no heavy lifting and no brutal machinery. But it may not be particularly healthy either. More and more employees are complaining that they are beset during deskbound hours by a panoply of miseries, from stuffy heads and watery eyes to nosebleeds, headaches and that just-plain-lousy feeling. Doctors and employers have long tended to dismiss such distress as hypochondria, but no longer. Increasingly, the grousing is considered to signal a real problem: indoor...