Word: bona
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...decision that has broad implications for older workers in many occupations, the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the claim of Criswell and the others, ruling unanimously that employers must meet a stringent legal standard before they can institute blanket retirement rules. Being younger than 60 is not a "bona fide occupational qualification," wrote Justice John Paul Stevens, unless it can be shown that all flight engineers over that age present a safety risk or that it is "highly impractical" to make individual judgments about their health...
...Pakistan case shows, its mere existence is no defense against espionage or theft. Only more stringent, worldwide security measures will work in combating proliferation by criminal means. Supplier nations need to impose stiffer penalties on individuals and firms that either violate atomic export restrictions or fail to investigate the bona fides of would-be purchasers...
Norris is not magnetic; he does not even have the freak appeal of Mr. T. His / popularity, all in all, is curious. The hard-core audience does appreciate his athletic bona fides. Also, says Code of Silence Producer Raymond Wagner, "he's an enormously nice human being, and that can be sensed on the screen." Norris indeed seems like a nice guy: married for 26 years, doting father of two loving sons, loyal to his friends. "The character I want to build," he said last week during the filming of Invasion U.S.A., "is a man who believes in the right...
...Strobe Talbott, who translated and edited the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev. The latest project required a special approach, Talbott says, "precisely because it does come from the world of espionage, where deception and illusion are commonplace. Those of us working on the project thought it important to verify the bona fides of the author and, as far as it was possible, his story." As State Department correspondent and diplomatic correspondent during the 1970s, Talbott had covered stories about defectors, agents and double agents--and the tricky business of telling them apart. Says Talbott: "I went back to a number...
...students, the Miami Dolphins, of Gos Ec majors with four exams and two papers due. January was a good month, however, for anyone who had been waiting for an intellectual apologia for cross-dressing as a cultural phenomenon. Androgvny has ostensibly moved from a more fashion had to bona-fide sociological thanks to endorsement, by two Harvard-linked journalist organs: Harvard Magazine and The New Republic...