Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Head of the Charles dance was scheduled to start at a very late 10:00 p.m. on Saturday. "Revelers" were left thinking "Is that all?" at the magical hour of 1:00 a.m. The refreshments brought back memories of under-17 nights at the local dance club...
...element of personal gain for the professor. "That's absolutely wrong," he states. He adds that the whole adventure gives off a deplorable "me first, let's get in there and make our money" attitude. In today's business whirl, though, with M.B.A. students convinced that the bucks start here, the wonder may be that no one thought of Edelman's $100,000 learn-and-earn incentive before...
...family when she was six. Spiritually restless, she converted to Roman Catholicism, then abandoned the faith. Her social relations were equally unstable. She was involved in many liaisons and underwent an abortion, but no man held her interest for long. Fossey's career was given the best possible start when Paleontologist Louis Leakey signed her on as his research assistant, yet she was never fully confident of her talent or of those around her. In the field or at home, professional and sexual jealousies continued to mar her career. Occasionally she would make intense declarations of affection, but from...
...sharply rising number of American professionals. In all kinds of settings across the U.S., from country houses to suburban high-rise apartments, more and more people need only take a few steps from their breakfast tables to their desks to start a day's work. Of course, working at home for pay has been around for as long as women have taken in knitting, doctors have put up shingles on their houses and writers have set up typewriters in their dens. But the advent of personal computers and other advanced technology has vastly expanded the range of occupations that...
...amazing how many students didn't start thinking about AIDS until Rock Hudson died," says Sandra Caron, health educator at Cornell...