Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most genuinely humanitarian thoughts that man has ever had. The youth of the world coming together to play -- it's a wonderful dream." He quadrennially skips the opening parade to save his legs from the speeches and his head from the pigeons, but partakes in all the casual camaraderie. "I'm a Village person. I like to go around and meet gymnasts and weight lifters, every kind of athlete. We share a special understanding. All sports are the same; it's just the rules that are different. Were ((the basketball star)) Michael Jordan and I to meet, I honestly think...
...many inner-city schools are less centers of learning than custodial institutions complete with wardens (principals) and guards (teachers) striving to control a mob of prisoners (students), some so preoccupied with the three Cs -- crack, crime and casual sex -- that they have no time for the three Rs. But the educational blight is not confined to underclass ghettos and barrios. Despite efforts to upgrade the math skills of U.S. students, a recent survey indicates that nearly half of American 17-year-olds cannot perform simple calculations that are normally learned in junior high school. Other surveys have documented equally dreary...
...other aspect of her personality, the humorous, tender side, is reflected not only in the devotion of her staff but also in the lively, casual air of St. Christopher's. Visitors, even small children, are admitted at all hours. Dogs stroll around, visiting their sick owners. Some patients sip whiskey with their visitors. "It's like a five-star hotel," says an elderly patient. More, perhaps, it is a throwback to the early days of the century, when care from birth to death was normally delivered at home. As Matron Duffield observes, "A hospital would insist on a strict diet...
Victims of these practices counter that testing positive does not necessarily mean a person will develop AIDS. Nor does the presence of carriers, or even those who have come down with AIDS, endanger the workplace, critics insist, because medical evidence indicates that the virus cannot be transmitted by casual contact. Discrimination on the basis of the blood tests may actually harm public health, they warn. "If you fear you are going to lose your job and just about everything else in your life," says Katherine Franke of the New York City Human Rights Commission, "there is no incentive to take...
...inside-the-sophisticated-boardroom perception of somebody fitting into a mold." It is hard to fit George Bush into a mold. The riddle is not merely that he is both unnecessarily nice and improbably tough, but that he can rise to genuine nobility of performance and sink to casual ruthlessness...