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  • The report highlights an issue that has been percolating among education circles: That school reform should include more emphasis on career-driven alternatives to a four-year education.

    Students Need More Job Prep: Report AP 2011

  • NBC 'Up All Night' 'Up All Night' (NBC) Chris, a reformed partier played by Will Arnett, stays home to raise baby Amy when his career-driven wife, Reagan (Christina Applegate), goes back to work.

    A New Generation of TV Wimps Amy Chozick 2011

  • 'Up All Night' (NBC) Chris, a reformed partier played by Will Arnett, stays home to raise baby Amy when his career-driven wife, Reagan (Christina Applegate), goes back to work.

    Season of the Wuss 2011

  • But reports on these trends always seemed to divide women into two camps: the "desperately seeking" types who were frantically searching for a husband, and the workaholics -- "these career-driven automaton women who have no time for relationships," recalls Cove.

    Single women, their dating adventures are subjects of new documentary, book Ellen McCarthy 2010

  • The 41-year-old Ghost Whisperer star also is developing an adaptation of her TV film The Client List at Lifetime as well as a comedy about the love life of a career-driven woman at Fox, according to Variety.

    Jennifer Love Hewitt Developing Comedy at ABC 2010

  • NBC 'Up All Night' 'Up All Night' (NBC) Chris, a reformed partier played by Will Arnett, stays home to raise baby Amy when his career-driven wife, Reagan (Christina Applegate), goes back to work.

    A New Generation of TV Wimps Amy Chozick 2011

  • By the time Duff was off to college, he was set on cooking, so he decided to study things he loved rather than a career-driven major.

    Regina Varolli: Duff Goldman: The Ace of Cakes On A Sugar High Regina Varolli 2011

  • I was such a career-driven person my whole life, but spending the last 6 months on mat leave have opened up a new world to me.

    » Stay at Home Mom Strocel.com 2009

  • To be fair, it's hard to put a lot of life into characters who are mere types — the conniving, career-driven press agent (Katie Cassidy); the lunk-headed, good-guy filmmaker (Michael Rady); the bad-boy bitter rich kid (Shaun Sipos) — and not particularly interesting types, at that.

    Make sure you steer clear of this 'Melrose Place' makeover 2009

  • Only Jennifer Lim manages to create a convincing and intriguing character in this career-driven woman who is happy to have an affair as long as the man she's sleeping with respects his own marriage too.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: "Other Desert Cities" Found On Broadway; "69 S" Lost at BAM; "Chinglish" Doesn't Translate Michael Giltz 2011

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