Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much a harbinger of spring as a robin. Mud season is not winter and not quite spring. It is something in between, a few weeks transcending transition to become a season in itself. First comes a slow drip. Then a tentative trickle. Then the melt begins in earnest: a rush, a gurgle, a cascade. The earth squirts, muck and mire suck at boots, downhill becomes a torrent, uphill becomes a bog. Snowbanks dissolve, flowing over ground already saturated. The frost comes out of the earth, and a normally flat, hard roadbed melts into mud three feet and four feet deep...
There is the expected rush of applicants to the top-level schools, such as Caltech, M.I.T., Rensselaer, Cornell and Michigan. At Caltech, 1,665 applicants sought 215 seats for the fall 1982 term. Other, less competitive engineering schools also have far more applicants than classroom spaces. Among those are the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Texas A&M (the largest engineering school in the U.S., with 1,500 graduates yearly) and the Rochester Institute of Technology...
Many older engineers, who decided upon their professions before the Sputnik rush, view with skepticism any talk of an engineer shortage. They see this as an attempt, indeed almost a conspiracy, by the engineering colleges and the big employing companies to increase the supply of engineers and thus hold down salaries. One of them is James V. Ball, 45, B.S.E.E. (University of Michigan, '64), who has a master's degree in engineering management (Northeastern, '68). He is now a systems manager in Sunnyvale, Calif. Says Ball: "There is no engineer shortage. If salaries were raised, whatever...
THERE IS A REASON for all this filler, however. That reason is right on the cover, where it says "by Senator Edward M. Kennedy." You only need to fill a book with filler when you have to rush to get it out. And you only have to rush a book out when you're trying to capitalize on a hot political issue. And one reason to capitalize on a hot issue is that it might help you get elected president someday...
...After a rush of praise, his antinuclear book draws skepticism