Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even after Cuomo's speech, his listeners couldn't help but feel the need to search for those future heroes--or to dream of becoming them. During the question-and-answer period, more than half the questioners disregarded the content of Cuomo's speech entirely, asking him instead about his predictions for future candidates for office. Leaving the auditorium, students asked each other whether they planned on going into politics. One student, quoted in this newspaper, expressed the feelings of many when she confided that the speech made her "want to go out and do something." But do what...
...spring into action; we retrace our steps, search our table downstairs and find nothing. She swears she had it in her hands, that it disappeared into thin air. The loss is grave, I soon find out-it was a cashmere sweater. Our spirits rise when she and I notice a friend of ours in the middle of dance floor and we work through the crowd to say hello. When we get up close, we find ourselves duped once again--it isn't our friend; just someone strikingly similar--his evil twin, we nervously joke. The third floor has us beat...
...panel, designed to teach students about networking and job hunting in the public service sector, featured three recent college graduates who offered their advice on the job search. After a brief question-and-answer period, Gail Gilmore, assistant director for public and community service at OCS, unveiled the "syllabus" for "the fifth course," a timeline for students hoping to land a job after graduation...
...search process is a very time-consuming thing," Gilmore said. "It's really like you're taking an additional course. You put as much time and effort into...
...pack of hair curlers once and neglected to tell the clerk about it. Interview everyone who has a grudge against him--old secretaries who had to correct his grammar on the letters they typed, the neighbor who had to deal with the leaves from the Hatch maple tree. Search his home. Maybe he has a secret fondness for donning embroidered platform shoes and elephant bells and lip synching to Barry Manilow. Why shouldn't the nation know about this...