Word: beards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Having a beard] is not against union regulations; it's against our dress code. Employees must be clean-shaven," Berry explained...
...Creole, Russian, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, Polish, Bengali and French. A few schools offer a full program in the student's native language, but most give at best an hour of native-language assistance, along with an hour of instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL). At Daniel Carter Beard Junior High in the borough of Queens, teacher Michael Cao faces a daunting task. His seventh-graders, most of whom speak little or no English, spend most of the day in mainstream classes. And then, in just 45 minutes, Cao must speed them through the baffling vocabulary they have encountered...
...celebrities who are being sued by ex-employees. Jeffrey Branum, who was Hope's butler for two weeks last year (not long enough, apparently, to pen a lucrative tell-all), has filed a wrongful-termination suit. Branum claims the comedian fired him because Branum refused to shave his beard off. "The Hopes have no comment," says their allegedly bearded spokesman...
...largely on political loyalty rather than credentials. Arafat's brother-in-law is one of the new members of the Palestinian Higher Education Council. Some health-care professionals are outraged that Fathi, the head of the Palestine Red Crescent and the chairman's younger brother (and spitting image, sans beard and kaffiyeh), has been assigned a role encroaching on the turf of Health Minister Riyad Za'noun...
Anger: I was living in Paris in the '60s and I told some stories I knew about Hollywood tragedies and scandals to some friends, and they'd never beard of these stories, so they encouraged me to put these in book form Hollywood reacted to the book surprisingly benignly. I've never been sued by any of the celebrities I wrote about except for the Gloria Swanson...