Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...risk of sounding trivial, I confess that I vaguely feel an infringement of my rights as an individual student. When enrolling at Harvard, I was not aware that I was signing up for a book or record club. If, in a rush, I neglect to waive my induction into the ranks of PIRG supporters, I am nevertheless penalized. I freely admit that such a scenario may border on the absurd; yet, I would like to raise the following point for discussion. The authors of the previously quoted article wrote that "...a failure to respond to the expressed preference...
...million last year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that an additional 12 million women will be added to the labor force by 1990 v. 10 million men. Already, more than half of all women aged 20 to 64 either hold jobs or are seeking them, and their rush into the labor force has aggravated the nation's unemployment. More than 5 million women are now employed in blue-collar jobs, amounting to 18% of the total in that category...
...central action is the 1973 Yom Kippur war illustrated with film clips and battle noises that could be backdrops for any war at any time. A situation map might have been more helpful since the generals rush in every five or ten minutes asking Golda to choose from their conflicting advice as to what action to take on one front or another. More or less in the dark as to what is at stake, the average member of the audience feels as indecisive as Golda is made to seem...
...Clark continually and annoyingly relies on quotes to supply the book's only colorful observations about Edison's personality and his image. It is Edison's words, not Clark's, that provide the reader with a sense of the danger of the inventor's headlong rush to "make it go." Clark quotes Edison when he decided to relocate his lab in New Jersey saying, "See that valley? Well, I'm going to make it more beautiful. I'm going to dot it with factories...
Still unconscious, Mirando was taken back to the operating room, where his femur (thigh bone) cracked as the surgeons tried to remove the dislocated prosthesis. Unwilling or unable to proceed further, the doctors sent out a rush call to the sales representative for the device, William MacKay, 34, who was playing golf at the time...