Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behind the mailboxes is the front line in Harvard's battle to find and correctly pay former "casual workers...
...Harvard Yard Mail Center, this has been more than a clerical problem. One casual employee, refusing to interview and apply for the full-time job he already filled...
...program designed to teach America's students using a non-traditional method--was confined by standardized testing strictures. This fall I read an issue of Newsweek that spoke to my concerns. A flood of memories poured over me: I began to collect information from editorials, essays, novels, speeches, casual conversation and personal experience. Now, I feel compelled to contribute my viewpoints to the already volatile debate...
...desks, faxes and computers. And for military training, the Defense Department is starting out by having four Iraqi exiles fly to a Florida Air Force base this week for 12 days of classes on the role of the military in developing democracies. The four have been told to wear casual civilian clothes. It is clear that the White House hopes that if military power can't oust Saddam, maybe these insurgents can. Others see the training in a different light. "It's lame," says Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman. "It's obviously not what Congress intended them to do with that...
...most casual cruise on the Internet shows how much debate Malthus still stirs today. Basically, the Pollyannas of this world say that Malthus was wrong; the population has continued to grow, economies remain robust--and famines in Biafra and Ethiopia are more aberrations than signs of the future. Cassandras reply that Malthus was right, but techno-fixes have postponed the day of reckoning. There are now 6 billion people on Earth. The Pollyannas say the more the merrier; the Cassandras say that is already twice as many as can be supported in middle-class comfort, and the world is running...