Word: unpreparedness
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At first, the couple reluctantly agreed. With a five-year-old daughter to care for already, the Lakebergs were financially strapped. Ken, a welder, had been out of work for a year, and the family had been forced to move after being evicted from a trailer home. So the day...
Even the automakers themselves are surprised -- and unprepared. As GM shutters eight plants, a feverish demand for light trucks threatens to outstrip the company's capacity to build them. Robert Rewey, vice president for Ford's sales operations, just raised his estimate of industry sales for the third time this...
The experience, she says, was "exhilarating." But it was also a reality check. "I thought the city would love me and jobs would fall in my lap," she says. "It taught me that you can't be unprepared...My biggest problem was that I didn't know enough, and I...
Others felt unprepared for their future lives for different reasons. Elizabeth D. Quinlan '68 says while she enjoyed the education she received at Radcliffe, it was very different from the structured, hierarchical world of the military she entered after graduation--or Operation Desert Storm, during which she served as the...
West's interests range far beyond the epistemological conundrums that preoccupy many professional philosophers. Nor is he easy to typecast as a liberal or conservative, black nationalist or integrationist, since he endorses bits and pieces of all those ideas. Instead, this self-styled "intellectual freedom fighter" wields his learning as...