Word: letdowns
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...jobs than anticipated, according to a report out today from the National Association for Colleges and Employers (NACE). The companies surveyed for the group's spring update are planning to hire 22% fewer grads from the class of 2009 than they hired from the class of 2008, a big letdown from the group's projections in October that hiring would hold steady. Some 44% of companies in the survey, conducted last month, said they plan to hire fewer new grads, and another 22% said they do not plan to hire at all this spring, more than double last year...
...Golden Knights responded after Brine was whistled for hooking. Clarkson got on the board when junior Britney Selina took a pass from Melissa Waldie and snuck the puck past Harvard junior goalie Christina Kessler with nine seconds left on the power play.“There was no letdown,” Stone said. “It was just all right, here we are. They’re not going to back down, they’re going to keep coming at us. And everybody knew that, so it was just a matter of responding...
...Chandigarh. "The narrative style and the plot are interesting. But if I speak for Indians like me, there's nothing new in it for us. It's saturated with stereotyped images of India. The expectations that had built up [around the film] were bound to make it a letdown." Vikas Swarup, author of Q and A, on which the screenplay is based, says Slumdog might have "fallen by the wayside if it had been made 20 years ago." He says at least part of the film's success is because "India is the flavor of the season. People want...
...will be moving “onward and upwards.” “Coach Fitz will be the first to say that hes only a third of the program,” Ehrlich said. “When coach Fitz steps away there will be no letdown, we’ll keep on rolling.” Fitzgerald, who is also noted for overseeing the relocation of the Harvard varsity weightroom in March 2007 from the Murr Center to its current 24,000 square-foot Palmer-Dixon locale—among the nation’s biggest?...
...Coach Fitz will be the first to say that he's only a third of the program,” Ehrlich said. “When coach Fitz steps away there will be no letdown, we’ll keep on rolling...