Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent my freshman summer rehabilitating my knee, and I returned the following year completely out of shape," Mills says. "Then my knee gave me problems again and this year. I competed in only five games. You only get 44 chances to prove yourself in this sport, and every game counts...
...Harvard, however, work is seasonal. Although "Harvard workers used to be able to collect unemployment during the summer," Bozzotto says, that changed in 1985. At that time, former President Ronald W. Reagan declared university jobs "temporary employment...
...This created a problem in the work force and resulted in a high turnover rate among workers," the Local 26 head says. Not everyone could survive the summer without unemployment benefits, so they had to find work elsewhere...
Bozzotto says he chose this tactic because negotiations were taking place during the summer, when it would have been futile to picket the University...
...example, the famous storming of the Bastille prison -- of which the French are noisily celebrating the 200th anniversary this summer -- was hardly a storming at all. The outnumbered and ill-supplied defenders (whose oppressed prisoners consisted of just two lunatics, four forgers and one aristocratic ne'er-do-well put away by his family) finally surrendered when they saw themselves confronting the rioters' artillery, which included a silver-inlaid cannon originally given to France by the King of Siam. And the commandant of the Bastille, who had tried to avoid further bloodshed, was subsequently hacked to death, his head stuck...