Word: stack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only after I had handed in that stack of resumes that I realized that I had taken the easy way out--and woke up panic-stricken in the middle of the night frightened by the fact that I had just applied for fifty positions that I was not even sure I wanted. The next day, I decided that it was time to take action...
Over the years, whenever my parents inquired about my job aspirations, I usually had the same general response: I told them that at some point in the middle of my senior year, I would drop a tall stack of resumes off at the Office of Careers Services (OCS), show up for a couple of interviews, be given offers by a few companies, and sign a contract to spend the next couple years of my life as a consultant or an analyst in an investment banking firm. No matter that I had little passion for banking and little understanding of consulting...
...boss said she thought it was a gas leak," said Katie R. Ryan '00 who works at Widener stack entrance...
...imposing as their stack of disadvantages may have seemed, there was one with which the Raines family did not have to contend. Seattle's inner city was a place where racial integration had evolved naturally and comfortably. It was an environment in which there were few limits on a child blessed with intelligence, self-assurance and drive. "I didn't feel out of place anywhere," Raines says. "It never dawned on me that I shouldn't be able to succeed...
Vinnie and his wife-to-be, Laura Stack, looked at the single-family residence and rear-carriage house with long-term plans in mind...