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Word: could (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...used to be that if you wanted it enough, you could find some sort of job," Jeune says. "Now, you need a basic knowledge of the language because people won't take the time to explain things to you. Now, you need a certificate even to clean a nursing home...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Dilemma: Move up? Move out? | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

...They just took whatever work they could find," says Claudia Lobo, director of social services for the Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Dilemma: Move up? Move out? | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

After tipping your hat to Tegan S. Shohet '01, who was named a Canadian Rhodes Scholar in a separate competition earlier this month, ask how it could be that the University, who usually sends four or five and once even 10 of its own on this most prestigious of scholarships, suddenly sends none. Have Harvard students in the Class of 2001 lost their edge...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: The Road to the Rhodes | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

Understanding these flaws helps explain why Harvard students won't be sailing to Oxford come September. The reason is not that Harvard didn't field good candidates. Those endorsed are among the best of the best. It's that Harvard didn't field all the candidates it could have...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: The Road to the Rhodes | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

...went, for a period of a half hour or so, during which you could see a consensus developing as, network by network, analysts hit on SCOTUS passages that more or less put the kibosh on further recounts. Which is not to say there wasn't plenty of room for interpretation. By 11 or so, there was agreement that it was all but over. Or that it wasn't! By just past 11, MSNBC was, at least on and off, calling George W. Bush the "President-elect." Or he wasn't! Maybe Al Gore would wait to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Short Memory of TV Pundits | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

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