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...terrain is rockiest in fields that are increasingly popular but are not expanding significantly, like journalism, and those that depend heavily on government funds, like oceanography. But the prospects are good to excellent in many careers. Health service administrators, engineers, registered nurses, accountants, bank officers, Catholic priests, computer programmers and systems analysts are among those expected to be in demand in the next decade. The BLS notes that while a bachelor's degree ensures a good chance at a job, a graduate degree in any of these fields would be an especially marketable asset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Growing Squeeze | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...Laird published A House Divided-America's Strategy Gap, which argued strongly in favor of the rockiest of hard lines in military and foreign policy. He inveighed against 20th century revolutionary movements, and condemned the United Nations as "dominated

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW ADMINISTRATION TAKES SHAPE | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...even the rockiest farmland, plows dig freely across the fields, the threat of grinding halts eliminated by hydraulic systems that deftly trip the blades over hidden stumps and stones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: Toward the Square Tomato | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...Burma Road, but that was heartbreaking too. "Even on that short stretch of road there must have been 10,000 coolies at work. The hillsides were black with them: Chinese, Shans, Kachins. Huge goiters hampered their work. Dozens were lying by the road shaking with fever. In the rockiest parts coolies were tediously drilling holes in the hard limestone cliffs in which crude gunpowder could be packed for blasting. There was no dynamite. . . . And they smoothed the road with their hands! Little loving pats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking of Operations | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...bumps of Jarvis Street are going the way of many Harvard traditions under the Conant regime according to the Engineering Corps which will be busy during the next few weeks in removing them and paving what has been the rockiest road to any tennis court in the vicinity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jarvis Street Bumps Going Way of Latin Requirement | 10/3/1935 | See Source »

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