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Word: present (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hurry to get where they are going many students go through college anxious about the future rather than confident enough about it to enjoy the present. After graduation they stampede into professions and professional schools without first taking time to find--or create--jobs that will give them more satisfaction than just a big paycheck...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Of Yuppies, Congressmen, and Contras | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...know the concept may strike you as absurd, but because of my unique position as a fanatical observer of Harvard hockey, I felt it was my duty to present the first (so far as I know) All-Hockey Team...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Mark My Words | 4/17/1987 | See Source »

Most students' favorite designer of cute icons is bringing its latest bushel of high-tech toys. The Macintosh II which is bigger, faster and more powerful than the present generation of Macintoshes and the Macintosh SE which is basically a Mac Plus with an expansion slot, will both be shown for the first time in the Boston area...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Companies to Show Off Their Latest Gadgetry | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

Suleiman, who in the past won a fellowship which she declined, said she plans to use the grant for the academic year, 1988-89. The professor is now working on a series of essays on French experimental writing, from surrealism to the present...

Author: By James Kwak, | Title: 8 Professors to Receive Guggenheim Fellowships | 4/15/1987 | See Source »

...tool of political intrigue, a commodity exchanged between men and women, and a road to happiness. Politics rears its somewhat ugly head in each woman's life--complete with bizarre schemes and dangerous, extremely good-looking spies--usually to the woman's utter dismay. And the otherworldly is present in large measure; the dead return to life, women develop into telepaths, angels fall from heaven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tales of Three Women | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

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