Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This makes the station almost unlistenable to anyone who is any more than a casual music fan. If you don't believe me, take it from Baltazar, the station's bad boy morning deejay. "I can't listen to Jam'n," he told The Boston Globe in a 1995 profile. "We play the same songs over and over...
Three-martini lunches are out, but workers are still imbibing--occasionally. Some 23% of managers sometimes have a drink during the workday, and 25% of all workers occasionally come in with a hangover. Why care? Researchers now think casual drinking is a big cause of absenteeism, tardiness and poor productivity...
...that view was surpassingly cynical, it had its own history. Back in January, as Clinton was preparing for his deposition in the Paula Jones case, the cameras had "caught" him and Hillary in a private moment, dancing on the beach in the Virgin Islands. As the year unfolded, casual friends of the Clintons noticed something a little creepy in the occasional offhand remark from the First Couple--as in "Buddy jumped in bed with us this morning"--whose only purpose seemed to be to signal the connubial geography. Privacy, it seemed, could be auctioned off for the right price...
...poem itself written into it--the planks of the bridge brusquely indicated, the calligraphy mingling with the broadly brushed leaves of water iris as if it too were part of the reed growth of the pond. And yet the whole image has an iron control within its spontaneity. This casual rightness of design cannot be feigned. It was rooted in the desire to understand nature by becoming part of nature. And Edo art, at its best, was all about that: the fusion of nature and culture, at a level of craft that is now lost to the world, East...
Landau said she will work for reform of the casual payroll and the job classification system, improvement of retirement benefits, increased training opportunities, and a continuation of the union's work concerning other quality of life and job classification issues...