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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...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making Waves at your First Interview | 1/13/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: The Killing Fields | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Clash: THE LAUGHING SUTRA by Mark Salzman | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIE FISHER: A Spy In Her Own House | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...Clancy Shulman found that 24% are so opposed to abortion that they would never support candidates who favor it regardless of their stands on other issues. But that hard core of pro-life sentiment is slightly outnumbered by the 32% who say they would never vote for an office-seeker who advocates restricting a woman's right to obtain an abortion. The poll also found that 57% do not believe that the court should overturn its ruling in Roe, while 61% disagree with the decision in the Webster case. Only 31% favor new state laws restricting access to abortion, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle over Abortion | 7/17/1989 | See Source »

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