Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It was assumed that the civil rights movement was about the irrelevancy of race, which is why conservatives so fondly quote King about people being judged "not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." But the larger point was that race does matter, and...
Mighty events pass quickly; 40 years of calamitous European history slide by as a diverting panorama. No character is on view long enough to be irksome, or for the reader to wonder unduly at arbitrary choices of personal traits and adventures assigned by the author. Burgess, as always, throws in...
An Israeli cartoon commercial in this year's elections showed a Pac Man character chomping away at the occupied territories, then continuing to gobble the entire land of Israel. These fears are exaggerated, but unfortunately all too fitting with the Palestinian rhetoric.
The prohibition is a huge setback for the polygraph industry, which is expected to lose about 85% of its $100 million in annual revenues. But the new law is a boon for firms that offer two other character tests: pencil-and-paper quizzes and graphology, or handwriting analysis. Says Eric...
As pencil-and-paper tests proliferate, they could run into as much opposition as the electronic variety. Massachusetts has explicitly banned written character tests, and other states have laws that may curb their use. The House Education and Labor Committee has asked the Office of Technology Assessment to determine whether...