Word: affective
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Although the total number of killings in American workplaces remain relatively low, they still average more than one a day, and the data show that they disproportionately affect women. In recent years homicide has been the leading cause of death of women on the job, says Corinne Peek-Asa, a professor of occupational and environmental health at the University of Iowa. Homicide accounted for 26% of female deaths on the workplace last year, federal figures show, compared with just 9% for men. Experts say better safety measures must be implemented to reduce workplace risk. "It's an area where...
...aware of it.”The candidate—who used to read the names of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq at Council meetings to enter them into the city record—said that her constituency consists of “people who care about issues that affect working families...youth issues...and seniors,” as well as residents of Cambridgeport, where she grew up, and North Cambridge, where she lives now with her husband and newborn child. Cambridge municipal elections will be held on Tuesday, November 3.—Staff writer Sarah J. Howland...
...Despite tighter budgets at universities across the country, the schools in the five-member compact are not overly concerned about authors’ abilities to afford the costs to publishers. Most authors rely on university grants, so the compact “doesn’t really affect the way authors write and publish,” said MIT Scholarly Publishing and Licensing Consultant Ellen F. Duranceau. Shieber, the Harvard professor, believes that in order to address the loss of scholarly subscriptions, open access should be supported. “As access to the subscription literature shrinks, it becomes even...
...sentimentality colors the prose of Vollmann’s work at large in a way that would make calling “Imperial” purely non-fiction reductive. Even his decision to leave out quotations in favor of fluid movement from description to speech gives it the affect of raw consciousness, as if heard in a dream. “Crossing the river into California, giving down on the reservation’s wide green and yellow bottomlands, I received this greeting: WELCOME TO PARADISE CASINO. I don’t know if you’ll find anybody...
...that Weatherl knows his facts, but he may be surprised to know that freshmen do too, because they learn these statistics and more only minutes into their workshops. Facilitators share these facts to acknowledge that there is a broad spectrum of sexual experience at Harvard, but issues of consent affect everyone. Unfortunately, simply because a student does not want to have sex does not mean that he or she will not be sexually assaulted...