Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reform is already stirring apprehension. The lifetime-employment system, for example, allowed children to inherit their parents' jobs, a practice that will eventually end. Some planners are worried that the new system will lure workers in search of more lucrative jobs to already crowded cities. They also fear that some less desirable positions may go unfilled. Says a Chinese official: "We must be very careful about labor mobility. Permanent employment is one of the last bastions of our ideology...
...invitations have not yet been mailed and Epps is perfectly capable of changing his mind and holding a lottery for the tickets. Instead, he insists that there is no time to make this change. Why it takes more time to run names through a computer than it does to search through students' resumes is anyone's guess...
...ZADORA in the film version of Harold Robbins' The Lonely Lady? A good beach book turned into a vehicle for this most untalented star to expose her "talent." Now Robbins does not pen great literature--many people would say that Robbins is not a writer, but a man in search of a movie deal--but whatever the book's merits, they were completely lost in its celluloid rendering...
...Harvard continues to scramble around campus in search of housing for overcrowded undergraduates, the University is currently building its first dormitory in 10 years--but it's not for the College...
...head of the line, in front of the Holyoke Center information Office, I see three more shifty-eyed types infiltrating the line by getting "frontsies" from their friends in more advantageous spots. I search my knapsack, find no weapons and try to hit them with a mind...