Word: accountably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the base wage of most custodians will rise above $10 by 2002 under the new agreement, PSLM members said the contract's extended timetable does not account for inflation...
...video camera overhead, I know I'm being recorded; the camera is usually right out there for me and everyone else to see. When I use my credit card to buy a meal, I know that American Express is recording that I've chalked up yet another overpriced expense-account lunch. And I know that AmEx knows...
...fiction, I have crossed that line innumerable times. Sirinsky says, "The interweaving of fact and fiction has no place in a biography." That's fine if you imagine that biographies are by and large truthful. They are not. As anyone who has ever attempted to write a "true" account of an actual event knows, the very act of putting pen to paper creates a veil of artifice that is drawn over the subject in question. If anything, Morris' technique strikes me as honest. He views his subject through the veil of fiction. It is truth that has no place...
...whose idea was it to keep controversial feminist author NAOMI WOLF'S role as adviser to AL GORE'S struggling presidential campaign under wraps? Hers, according to the account she offered in the New York Times. But that was news to some Gore campaign officials, who said Wolf had been agitating for a more public profile. She finally blew her own cover with her ostentatious presence at Gore's New Hampshire forum with BILL BRADLEY two weeks ago, where she ignored suggestions to stay away from reporters, say Gore advisers...
Thirteen-year-old Elisabeth Laskey of Gray, Me., gets $25 a month deposited into her iCanBuy account in lieu of an allowance. So far Elisabeth has bought some CDs, pencils and shirts. "I've only been on for a couple months, so I don't have much money saved yet," Elisabeth says. "But I'm thinking about saving some more and maybe donating some to charity." Elisabeth has learned one major financial lesson from her online shopping account: "Once it's in there, it's my money, and I get to decide what I want to do with it. That...