Word: arens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to relive that week or even my entire first year? When I was young and naive, I enjoyed those giddy, carefree days as much as the next person, but now that I'm older and naive, do I want to experience them all over again? At 22, aren't we a bit too young to be nostalgic, especially about events that happened not quite four years...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we aren't here to accepted or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
...pressure to root out bias among individuals making important personnel decisions. "The court is saying to employers they should examine their processes and make sure they have objective standards," says Douglas McDowell of the Equal Employment Advisory Council. "Supervisors must be properly trained to ensure that race and sex aren't part of the decision- making process." Such changes in attitude may already be under way at Price Waterhouse. Referring to the embarrassing publicity generated by this case, Kathryn Oberly, an attorney for Price Waterhouse, observes, "You couldn't have a better teaching example than to see the name...
...think they miss out on something. I can't help being amazed that they can carry on that way with us while expanding, in a quite constructive way, their relationships with countries that aren't their allies or friends. In the light of that, I can't help thinking that their attitude to New Zealand is strange...
...dish of Howard Johnson's maple walnut, anything that Big Boy has to offer is, well, not the same. And if one inquires politely how far down the superhighway one must go to find the next Howard Johnson's restaurant, the polite answer is that there aren't any there anymore...