Word: paged
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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...
...entering the world of resume efficiency--a world not determined by market mechanisms or moral truths but by the space limitations of an eight and one-half by 11 inch page. With a little practice, you too can be a master of this world. Ultimately, you will be able to justify getting rid of lengthy words such as "assisted" and replacing them with shorter words such...
...doors opened at Bloomingdale's and other U.S. subsidiaries of Campeau Corp. last week, but it was hardly business as usual. After months of financial turmoil, the Toronto-based company placed its 257 American stores under bankruptcy court protection. The 6,000-page petition listed $7.5 billion of debt. Campeau renamed the U.S. operations Federated Stores Inc.; former Federal Reserve Board Chairman G. William Miller was named chairman of the unit...
George Bush has no patience for those who accuse him of stinting on public education. As he told Governors last fall, the U.S. "lavishes unsurpassed resources" on schooling. Last week that claim was strongly challenged by the Economic Policy Institute (E.P.I.), a Washington-based think tank. In a 29- page report based on data published by the Federal Government and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the institute concludes that the U.S. spends relatively less on elementary and secondary education than 13 other industrialized countries, including Japan, West Germany, France and the Netherlands...
Similarly baffling is the near-silence in the university on the issue of date rape, a common crime on campus. We do not see the names of the accused printed on the front page of The Crimson. Nor are the accused rapists hauled from their dorm rooms in handcuffs...