Word: catch-22ã
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...revelation of any previous criminal offense is often enough to cause a potential employer to discard the application. This proves quite an obstacle for newly released prisoners, who cannot be expected to fully reintegrate into society without a means to support themselves. Ex-convicts must deal with this perpetual catch-22??live comfortably in prison, or live as an outcast outside of it—for up to 15 years under the current structure of the CORI, which seals felony offenders’ records 15 years after their release, and 10 years after release for misdemeanors...
...evenings barely seems like an inconvenience at all. Sure, walking twenty-five minutes to work makes the walk to the Quad seem like a hop, skip, and a jump, but after sitting on the train for an hour, it feels great. My mixed commute is like a win-win Catch-22??which is a reference I now feel alright using, considering I’ve actually had a chance to read the book this summer. Thanks to the train ride, of course.Commuting has a unique culture; a strange, exclusive social order open only to those who live inconveniently...
...don’t think it’s a good idea to get recommendations from students on the student advisory board...because everyone deserves a fair chance,” Levin-Gesundheit said, adding that students on the board were caught in a “catch-22?? when they felt the need to be fair to all applicants as well as to their friends...
...senior University official said that generally in cases of protest the “Catch-22?? is that if the rules are read, protestors may claim they were intimidated, but if they are not read, protestors may claim they had no fair warning of the rules...
...simply wanted to respond to the quite rational feeling that students from these countries would be in a Catch-22??unable to afford to stay in Cambridge, but perhaps unable to return to Cambridge if they went home,” he said...