Word: cater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These migrant workers, who now number almost 1 million, remain outside the main stream of Saudi life, since most leave when their specific job contracts expire. In Al Knobar, shops cater to the thousands of Korean workers with window signs reading KOREAN SPOKEN HERE. Saudis complain that the Egyptian and Pakistani workers are responsible for the increase in burglary in a country that boasts one of the lowest crime rates in the world (in part, because thieves are punished by having their hands cut off). On occasion, Yemenites have gone on slowdown strikes, while Filipinos, Pakistanis and Koreans have demonstrated...
...helped run all 21 events: "With the A.C.A., we'd still have to do all the work and they'd just tell us what to do. We don't want to kowtow to the great canoeists. All we want is a fun weekend-strictly amateur. We cater to the everyday Joe who wants to bring his kids here and have a good time." By those criteria, North Creek's derby this year, as always, was a success. Cold and wet, but a success...
...cater only to the maximization of profits is to invite corporate doom," he says "In this country, we've developed corporate enterprise by reason of the will of the people. The only way that we will continue to have the support of the people who enfranchised us is to perform in ways that are socially desirable. If we do not, somebody will blow the whistle on the corporate enterprise system...
...TIME cater to artistic platitudes like the work of this "fantastic" Steinberg? Somewhere along the line, artists apparently decided that beauty and expressiveness in a work are old hat, and by masquerading behind secure parodies they can get away with a minimum of thought and effort. O.K., let's admit the world is crazy. But does that mean our art and culture should repress creativity and optimism and thereby give in to absurdity? Steinberg has proved to me that he and the other moderns are bored...
Abernathy, who seconded the amendment, said it would allow Harvard to cater to the needs of "our most highly trained and motivated students," by letting them avoid Core areas that they might already have covered in advanced high-school courses...