Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solution is to play the game. Do the resume thing. But never, never let it pollute your soul...
When a friend later said, "You know what they say about guys with large resumes..." I let my imagination run wild. I soon learned, however, that guys with large resumes had small and unsuccessful job interviews. No matter how much you accomplish, your resume must not exceed one page. This is not because conciseness is an absolute virtue. Rather, scientific studies reveal that the dolts assigned to read resumes have very short attention spans...
...Each [Super Bowl win] is sweeter," said the much-lauded Joe Montana. "This is just sweet. Let's go get another...
...even if Blades did, he wouldn't let it stop him. When not singing or acting, Blades unwinds by painting watercolors ("mostly faces") or reading (George Orwell and Hunter S. Thompson). His goals include writing and directing a film set in Panama, making a documentary feature and recording an all-instrumental album. Meanwhile Blades' fearless muse is once again pointing him toward uncharted musical waters. "I already know something is brewing," he says. "Some people will be surprised." And a few more walls will come tumbling down...
...Saturday evening a grim-faced President Mikhail Gorbachev appeared on nationwide TV to defend the crackdown. Noting that two years of negotiations to resolve the conflict between the Azerbaijanis and Armenians had failed, he said flatly, "This had to stop." Yet many Soviets wondered why Gorbachev let the ethnic violence spin out of control last week before sending in troops. At the same time, there was an uneasy feeling that the country's army might find itself bogged down in another Afghanistan, within its own borders, fighting a people just as ferociously dedicated to defeating Moscow. Those fears were illustrated...