Word: attend
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...adoring fans agree. The few among them who pay $900 to attend one of her quarterly seminars -- waiting time is about a year -- feel fortunate to get an up-close look at glamorous country chic. For three days participants study the Stewart style, committing to memory her 1805 farmhouse, its 19th century English and American antiques, almost six acres of gardens with 15 varieties of lettuce, and barn with Araucana chickens that lay blue eggs. Heady stuff, but Stewart makes her guests feel at home in it. Says Michigan housewife Lynda Byer: "I worried that she'd be a little...
...ways that characterized Sri Lanka for decades. "Today I am afraid to smile at anyone on the street," says Vallipuram Pararajasingham, a doctor in northern Vavuniya. In the south, people are too frightened even to venture into the streets. "You find television newscasters afraid to work, lawyers afraid to attend bar meetings, and M.P.s who resign after threats," says Wickremasinghe. "Everyone is living in a psychosis of fear...
...skills gap. Getting employees to stick with classes can be difficult, however, since the sessions are frequently held away from the workplace after hours. Larger companies, which command the resources to hold classes in-house, have sweetened the deal by offering workers time off during the workday to attend. Success in both cases depends on how strongly individual companies support their programs -- and how effectively they defuse workers' fears about getting fired for owning up to subpar literacy...
...union went back on that promise. HUCTW shut out the 'no' votes. The union decided to allow only those workers who had signed union cards before last May's election to choose representatives to attend the first meetings with the University. This move was an outright betrayal of the ideology on which the union campaigned and an insult to those who supported the drive for representation...
Network executives deny any cause-and-effect relationship between the staff cutbacks and greater permissiveness. True, standards-and-practices people no longer read every script or attend every taping. But shows are still vetted by program executives, who alert the censors to potential problems. "We changed the mechanism, but we did not change the standards," says Alan Gerson, who heads the remnants of NBC's standards division. Indeed, most of this fall's bolder shows were written and reviewed before most of the recent cutbacks...