Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes of cable fame. People not only choose sides, they also choose roles. Representative Bob Inglis, raw from his November loss to Senator Fritz Hollings, returned as the voice of the Lord, the Old Testament one. Representative Lindsey Graham's early turn as Hamlet turned out to be a search for an unoccupied spot on the opinion spectrum that might land him on Meet the Press. He found a "legal technicality" that allowed him to vote against one article, earning him the valuable CONSERVATIVE BUCKS HIS PARTY headline in the New York Times...
Steve Kirsch is the first to admit it. He is too damn rich. "I can't spend all my money," he sighs. "The best things in life just aren't that expensive." At 41, the founder of the Internet search-service Infoseek is worth more than $137 million. But while many of the other fresh-faced moguls in Silicon Valley have plowed their outrageous fortunes into still more outrageous indulgences, Kirsch decided in 1992 to do something subversive: he created his own charitable fund...
According to Nathans, Prokopow will not be a permanent replacement for Sparagana. A nationwide search is expected for the position. Nathans said she hopes to have the position filled by spring break...
...viable career options presented by the University. Too often, the employment world is portrayed as a choice between which corporation one wants to work for. The public interest sector is simply not given the same attention. When I was a senior, I wanted to take the ideals, convictions and "search for truth" I had learned in the classroom to the working world, rather than leaving them behind...
...search led me to the State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG). PIRG provided me-and, every year, provides hundreds of recent college graduates-with a mechanism to bridge the gap between working for the common good and being successful. It just depends on how you define success. Personally, I have been able to dramatically increase recycling in Massachusetts, train hundreds of Citizen activists in lobbying techniques, educate thousands of Massachusetts residents about pressing social issues, and more...