Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...volition. She was reassigned after a maternity leave but to a similar data-entry job at the same rate of pay. Jones' team has not effectively disputed this. She alleges on-the-job insults--not getting flowers on Secretary's Day, being moved to a desk closer to her boss--but the slights "don't rise to the level of an adverse action under the law," says Lynne Bernabei, a respected employment-rights litigator in Washington. "The guy may have acted boorishly, but that's not sexual harassment. The law is not there to control behavior, it's there...
...went into crisis mode, nearly tripling the project's staff and showing up in Connecticut himself. The blame lies partly with the state for not anticipating how quickly welfare recipients would find work and need child care, says company spokesman Kevin Geddings. "But we should have taken a much closer look," he says. "We've learned a lot from this...
Then suddenly, the danger was gone. Barely a day later, new data and new calculations showed that the asteroid, dubbed 1997 XF11, presented no threat at all. It would miss Earth by 600,000 miles--closer than any previously observed asteroid of that size but a comfortable distance. Still, the incident focused attention once and for all on the largely ignored danger that asteroids and comets pose to life on Earth. As Los Alamos senior scientist Greg Canavan put it, paraphrasing Dr. Samuel Johnson, "Nothing so clears the mind as the sight of the gallows...
...Academy goes ultra-lite this year, reveling shamelessly in feel-gooders to the tune of As Good As It Gets, Good Will Hunting and The Full Monty. Titanic is its idea of tragic ballast: never mind such trifles as lame dialogue, clunky plot contrivances and characters that are closer to caricatures...
SHOULD WINRobert Forster--also the actor most certain of losing. His work on Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown was not only compelling on its own, but his love for Jackie brought us closer to her character than almost anything else in Pam Grier's own uneven performance...