Word: placement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promisingly. "Yatakatakatakatakatakatakatakataka." "Dios mio!" came the response. "Yatakatakatakatakatakataka." I gave up after the second line and just laughed. I was not alone. Some guy got up and did the flamenco. My score on the test was 415, which, by the law of averages, I would have scored on the placement test in Urdu...
...complicated whites and shadows of the tablecloth and housecoat, set down with Arikha's fugitive and worried scribbles of the brush. When he leaves his customary palette of white and earth colors, the results show his background in abstract painting: Canadian Envelope, 1977, with its immaculate placement of rectangles, its cross-rhymes of blue and red, seems as consciously organized as a Mondrian...
...fewer applicants to choose from, the school can't always be as selective as before about qualifications and may not be choosing from the best college seniors. But, Kraus points out that with fewer students the school can devote more time and resources to each one, maintain its excellent placement record and ease the pressure on its finances. Kraus adds he only has worries about the quality of students in two departments...
Reed's replacement for the Velvet Underground sound is a mixture of electronically synthesized guitar and bass, a traditional wind and brass section, and a technique called "stereo binaural sound"-which has something to do with the placement of microphones and leads to a thick, atmospheric recording best listened to with headphones. The sound is unmistakeable and very pleasing, and so far Reed has been able to write songs that take full advantage fo it. On "I Want to Boogie With You," Don Cherry's trumpet and Marty Fogel's sax thicken the soup of a repeated chord sequence...
Adelaide Jones, placement director at the Kennedy School of Government, said she learned while trying to get a job after college that "women don't make decisions about their careers--they make decisions about jobs...