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...increased long-term unemployment. As an economy progresses technologically, it creates new industries, new consumer goods and new services which absorb the jobs lost to more efficient, older industries. America's productivity has grown twelve-fold in the past century, but our employment rate is certainly not one-twelfth of what it used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hope, Gloom, Ec 10 | 3/15/1996 | See Source »

...some time; and for a few aching moments, at the opening of the play, they give us scenes from Shakespeare that are truly lovely. The fond hope arises in one's breast-- perhaps they will abandom the sophomoric Shakespearean parody into which they have been forced and perform Twelfth Nightor As You Like It. instead...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Goodnight Squanders Talent Dreaming of a Better Script | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...Angry white male--why is there no resentment of that term?" Jackson asked in his keynote address to the twelfth annual HBLSA spring conference in the Ropes-Gray Room of Pound Hall. "We can't dignify that term, or we justify their anger...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Jackson Defends Affirmative Action | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...class and enjoyed it. Yet, even as a person who has a decent knowledge of European and Medieval History, I was often lost in lecture and I know that a lot of other students in the class felt the same way. If the class had used the twelfth century history of Flanders, Catalonia and England as a rubric through which to teach "major approaches to knowledge," that would have been one thing. But this class was just about the twelfth century history of Flanders, Catalonia and England. It was interesting. It has no business being in the Core curriculum...

Author: By Andrei H. Cerny, | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 4/12/1995 | See Source »

...each of the Dunster volleyball teams have played their first match. The uniforms have been broken in and the plays which looked so good on paper have had their first test run. Considering the fact the Dunster ranks twelfth out of 12 in the. Strauss Cup competition for cumulative intramural points, there's nowhere to go but up. No matter what happens, Ma will get his wish for the team: He just wants people to have a good time and learn how to play volleyball...

Author: By Michelle C. Sullivan, | Title: A Man, A Plan, a Volleyball: Paul Ma | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

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