Word: seeker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Murray, a job seeker should "think about the industry" before choosing a wardrobe. While corporate jobs like consulting and accounting generally mandate traditional business wear, other careers, such as retail, accept more modish apparel...
...vacation-seeker would want to spend time in the barren, broken swaths of logged countryside. The loggers have turned many beautiful areas of the Pacific Northwest into ugly, bare brown-spots--almost totally devoid of life...
Salzman is skilled at using his meandering tale to comment on such varied ; matters as the Cultural Revolution, the Hong Kong drug trade, American amusement parks and the idiocies of slob art in West Coast galleries. But the subjects -- the earnest seeker and his wizardly mentor, an old dormant civilization and a young bombastic one -- are still stereotypes, no matter how lovingly drawn...
Even at an early age, Carrie was thoughtful and inquisitive. "She was always asking questions," recalls Debbie. "She was always searching for answers. A seeker." To cope with her mother's klieg-illuminated life, Carrie repaired to a world of private musings in journals and diaries. "I always wrote," she says, "even when it was just bad poetry like 'My nose runs/ my mind follows...