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Word: rushes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late October, the and LSAT registration rush is on at the "Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center" in Boston. It's a little more than a month away from the next exam, and students are crowded around the front desk, eagerly filling our forms and signing over $300 checks $50 refundable) without a flinch. School shirts and jackets reveal a cross-section of Harvard, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern, and Wellesley students who have made the pilgrimage to the spanking new Kaplan center on the ninth floor of the Park Square Building...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Horatio Alger, With Chutzpah | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...maybe she will rush to you and, now fiercly animated, try to speak aloud...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: images of a hard sell | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

...took six people an hour to cross what once had been a small but forceful stream, since turned into a bank-leaping, hip-high rush of water just two miles from the station. Adrian and Johnnie, two hikers I had met by chance the day before, were leaving the ranger station as I set off. When I first caught sight of the water we ran into three other hikers who were having trouble finding a crossing--two American servicemen stationed in Germany and a German friend of theirs in the Sierras for a vacation...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Hell and High Water | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

Egypt's hotel shortage may cause a squeeze, but construction is now under way by many companies, including Hilton, Intercontinental and Marriott. On both sides of the Sinai, tourist officials foresee a bonanza as international travelers rush to visit both countries in a single trip. Says Fuad Shady, an official of the Nile Hilton: "We have the greatest tourist package in the world?the Holy Land combined with the world of the Pharaohs?and a great year-round climate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Let My People Go | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...dollar's decline was accelerated by hard-headed investors, primarily corporations and banks, that have been hedging their positions in money markets. "The line between hedging and speculation is pretty thin," says Whitman. Yet she believes that corporate moneymen will rush to buy dollars as soon as they become convinced that the U.S will stick to a clear-cut economic policy. In Whitman's view, the Administration's dollar-revival plan consists of one Band-Aid and one magic bullet. The move to big intervention-selling gold, buying dollars-will barely patch a scratch. But the shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Rise of the Role Model | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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