Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ancient meeting grounds of the early humanoid known as Homo Careerist. Dr. Kent Palmer, professor of precivilization business sociology at the University of Canton, has written that this map represents the clearest representation of the career possibilities open to our ancestors that we have found yet. Palmer has spent 15 years deciphering the symbols on the map, and he believes that the early careerists used different symbols to represent different possible futures. (Palmer also notes that the belief that each individual could pursue a different path to the future is an idea that these officepeople invented, but which lay dormant...
Spence, who has spent the bulk of his five-and-a-half year tenure as dean on issues of faculty staffing, is quietly preparing to revamp the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). And he says he's convinced that increasing the number of senior faculty and bolstering the chances that junior faculty will receive tenure here are the keys to his plans for the venerable...
Initially, the interviewer may try to break the ice by talking about anything but the job - such as sports, the weather, or current events. One Harvard senior encountered an interviewer who spent an entire 30-minute interview talking about football. They had a great conversation - but the student didn't get a second interview...
...thus, the two of us spent the better part of an evening poring over the offending material--the U.S. News & World Report exclusive ratings: America's Best Colleges...
...definitely changes what a family is like," says Karen Hastings, who spent her high school years at North House and now designs glass art in Santa Fe, N.M. "I think I felt sometimes that there wasn't as much time spent as a family...