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Many of the techniques and steps of the process that you would use in a job search at home are equally useful in the overseas job quest. Information gathering - talking, reading and writing - is the way to get started. The thrust of all this activity should be directed to creating a network of contacts that will eventually lead to a job. Unless there is a booming, hungry employment market in the place you are going, you have to be a pretty good salesperson to convince an employer why they should hire an American student. Employers offering temporary jobs, in whatever...
...hunks are sent on dates successively with the same three women, then appear on the show to guess which ones made various comments about them. The remarks are suggestive sound bites like "He gasped in amazement when I slurped down that beef" or "A few sparks, a big thrust and his mighty rocket started to rise." The real meaning, however, is usually banal; the comments, no matter how innocent (the beef was filet mignon; the rocket, fireworks on the beach), have been reprocessed by the show's writers for maximum double-entendre effect...
Things were simpler then. Last week at the gaudy end of the Republican Convention the 41st President roared off from Houston in a six-story, 227,000- lb.-thrust 747-200B jet. George Bush's seven-plane campaign air force began to crisscross the country from Gulfport to Hartford, bearing hundreds of advance men, surrogates, White House aides, Secret Service agents and reporters. These hordes will follow Bush through countless paralyzing motorcades and rallies, accompanied by helicopters, armored limousines, blocky weapons vans and scores of VIP-toting luxury autos, all in search of the elusive voter...
THEORIZING THE THEORIST. Watching Errol Morris' brilliant film, one begins to perceive a powerful analogy between Hawkings condition and the thrust of % his thought. His disease seems to have affected him much as loss of energy affects a failing star. The bright and unfocused young man described in the film by witnesses to his early days has in effect collapsed in upon himself, his spirit concentrating on the one small area of his body that continues to function perfectly -- his brain. His thought has achieved a remarkable density, and he has become a singularity almost as unimaginable as the astrophysical...
...think you would have got more done early on in this Administration if you had perceived the ((1988)) election more as a mandate? In your Inauguration you spoke of stewardship. You said President Reagan had set the thrust. It was kind of like Reagan Three. Is this going to be Bush...