Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggest that Helfer would be wise to expand his sample size. Such casual empiricism is not warranted in light of available evidence. In 1954, 41 percent of adults in the U.S. thought that smoking is one of the causes of lung cancer, compared to 66 percent by 1964. Similarly, awareness has increased over time of the link between tobacco use and 25 or so other diseases. The causality is not rationally challenged today. In the '50s, however, the harmful effects of smoking were certainly not, as Helfer glibly declares, widely perceived...
...terms of numbers were the investment banking and computer technology firms, the latter having long shed their Silicon Valley grunge. Here and there were token "alternatives"--Teach for America, the Peace Corps, the Walt Disney Corporation--some of whose employees chose to wear clothes that tended (gasp) more toward casual Fridays than toward Wall Street...
...seemed like an all-right plan at the time--Harvard did, after all, lead 34-3. To even the most casual observers, the Crimson (3-2, 1-1 Ivy) seemed well on its way to emasculating the hapless Rams in a second-half romp...
Partially because of the University's highly decentralized record-keeping systems and the intrinsic variability of casual employment, the actual number-crunching was a Herculean...
...pendulum is swinging now in the right direction. There are clean rules and strict guidelines. The jig is up...the days of unregulated use of the casual payroll is over," Jaeger said...