Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Applications to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dropped by 10 per cent this year, and Faculty members generally attributed the decline to the tight job market for Ph.D.s...
...junior faculty member in the History Department, who asked not to be identifed, said yesterday that while a tight job market accounts for most of the drop in GSAS applications, he believes a History Department "reputation" for political conservatism and continuing graduate student complaints of professor inaccessibility may have discouraged some students from applying...
...appearances with great finesse. Only Marthe Keller, as the bitter Palestinian woman who masterminds the plot, comes up wooden--she seems a little too cold and calculating for someone who's bearing two generations of suffering on her heart. The real star, though, is Frankenheimer, whose direction is tight and professional, and whose product is gripping...
Gathering his new team for the first time late last week, Giscard outlined the tasks of the new government. The top priority, he said, remains the battle against inflation (currently running at over 8%). That means a continuation of Barre's austerity measures, including tight credit and wage restraints. Giscard also proposed a specific "program of action" for the next twelve months to find ways to help the aged, economically depressed families and unemployed youths. Meanwhile, the leaders of the majority parties will draw up a specific platform that would be matched point by point against the left...
English renditions of these two triumphant works have never before been available in one book. And Translator A. Poulin Jr., 38, has done more than simply collect Rilke. He gives the German a tight, idiomatic English style that is both readable and remarkably in tune with Rilke...