Word: blissed
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...hero's welcome as joyful as it was short-lived. Jefferson, according to historians, soon grew disappointed in the enterprise. It had failed to substantiate his western dreams of a well-watered garden convenient to the Pacific where generations of self-sufficient farmers would live in democratic bliss, free from old, corrosive political controversies such as slavery. As for peace with the Indians, and among the Indians, well, those medals certainly were handsome. And then there was Lewis, of course, the chronic depressive who may have reached his spiritual high point somewhere back along the wild Missouri. In 1809, while...
What's behind all this professional prevarication? No one knows for certain, but personnel managers, the gatekeepers of the work force, say it's getting harder and harder to distinguish honest applicants from the growing number of dishonest ones. "Lying," says Wendy Bliss, a consultant with the Virginia-based Society for Human Resource Management, "is happening on a very large scale...
Large indeed. According to a recent survey of 2.6 million job applicants by Colorado-based Avert Inc., which specializes in background checks, 44% of all resumes contain at least some lies. Other surveys by Bliss's group reveal that up to 90% of personnel directors report resume fibs about everything from past salaries to--inexplicably--Social Security numbers. And things aren't any better at the boardroom level. Christian & Timbers, one of the nation's top 10 executive-search firms, found that at least 23% of 7,000 resumes submitted for president, V.P. and board-of-director positions had been...
Cohabitational Bliss...
...clutter up my desktop and get in my face. But Mozilla's "tabbed-browsing" feature lets me open those new windows behind the page I'm currently reading; when I'm ready, I just bring them to the front by clicking on neat little manila-folder-style tabs. Bliss. Mozilla also lets you turn off all Web-based pop-up ads, for all eternity, with a single click. Beyond bliss...