Word: skips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Legions of M.B.A. candidates from Boston to Berkeley are wondering the same thing. A record 61,000 students will receive their degrees this year, 26% more than five years ago. The stubborn recession, however, has led many firms to skip the 1983 campus recruiting season, which got under way at numerous schools last week. Result: a student scramble for jobs and a slowdown in salary growth...
...representative says the double life, when added to the responsibility of caring for a wife and three-year-old daughter is "very demanding "In fact, earlier this week he pulled an all night" and then had to skip a class so he could vote against the death penalty in the House...
...American field hockey star also plays varsity basketball and lacrosse, and will have to skip the Harvard Thanksgiving Basketball Tournament to make the Florida trip...
Surely, a new approach is needed. I suggest that the United States simply skip the year 1984 altogether, with all of its chilling Orwellian connotations, and go straight ahead to 1985. While this would mean many sacrifices--I personally would have to forego my graduation--it is the least Americans can do for their country: it would allow the United States to pull ahead of Russia in the Time Race: and, since there would be no 1984 election, Ronald Reagan would continue to stay at the helm of this great nation until...
...initial response to Jockey For Her briefs has been so successful that the company has decided to skip test marketing and introduce them beginning in November in Milwaukee, Dallas and Los Angeles. Jockey is considering whether to have a famous female athlete or celebrity model the new product, just as Baseball Star Jim Palmer poses for the male briefs...