Word: calling
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President Bok said yesterday the report is "thorough and systematic," and "reflects a very steady and substantial decline in the number of places where under-representation occurs," but he declined to call the report either encouraging or discouraging...
...pick them up after classes, and sports enthusiasts, who can play golf or tennis in the early morning or late afternoon. Supervisors report that productivity generally improves under Flextime?since employees can work at the hours when they feel most alert?and that absenteeism drops. Workers no longer call in sick for an entire day in order to get a couple of hours to attend to personal business...
...management has cut its staff to a mere 20 employees, v. the normal 700. So many of California's lodges have closed that unemployment rolls in Mono County have reached 20%, and applications for food stamps are running so high that the county welfare office had to call for emergency clerical help from Sacramento...
...formula takes the noun or verb of a given text and replaces it with the seventh of the following nouns (or verbs) in any given dictionary. In the February issue of Scientific American, Columnist Martin Gardner, an OuLiPo fan converts the opening two lines of Moby Dick into: "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no Mongol in my purulence, and nothing particular to interest me on shortbread, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery partiality of the worriment." Strip Flipper. OuLiPo's only American, Harry Mathews...
...attitude toward Judaism: confronting it and taking it seriously," insists Co-Author Michael Strassfeld, 26, son of a Boston Conservative rabbi. Reviving Faith. The Catalog is in fact an expression of a reviving faith among Jewish young people, many of whom are gathering together in new communal groups they call havurot, from the Hebrew word for fellowship. Each such group-there are now hundreds all over the U.S.-is a close-knit community that meets for prayer sessions, meals, classes and discussions on Judaism. While havurah members do not necessarily live together or pool their finances, they share an intense...