Word: combs
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Shipler doesn't place all the blame on society. The people he meets often lack the soft skills that employers require, like showing up on time, following directions, even knowing how to comb their hair. To be sure, they need better schools and reliable medical insurance, but they also need to know better than to use their precious tax-refund checks to get tattoos. Sometimes they clip coupons and turn up faithfully at job training. Sometimes they get drunk and disorderly. They go in for ill-advised sex and foolish spending sprees. In other words, the working poor...
...omnipresent indication of our nation’s “terror alert” status. Patriotic citizens around the country now raise both the American flag and the orange “high alert” flag of the Department of Homeland Security. Pundits and anchormen comb through our country’s weak spots and ask the questions that need to be answered, like whether our seaports are safe from oil tankers—which could clearly be used as torpedo missiles—and whether Air France should ever be allowed to enter the country?...
Syria's private response--that unspecified accounts were being frozen--was judged woefully inadequate. Publicly, Syria denies there is any Iraqi money in the country. But just over two weeks ago, the U.S. sent two American financial experts and two representatives of the Iraqi Central Bank to Syria to comb through records. U.S. officials now assert that Damascus has given them only "limited cooperation...
...think it’s critical to chart success once on campus—and more than just the graduation rate,” Stone said. “Just as we go over these kids’ profiles with a fine-toothed comb before they come in, it’s great to see how they do once they’re here...
...money." Parents are bringing their hopefuls to her from all over Russia. "But they're taking horrible risks," she sighs. "And what if all their effort proves in vain?" At the same time, "tennis parents" remain the only way kids can get discovered. Russian tennis cannot afford scouts to comb the country for talent. Children might catch the eye of a tennis boss as they move upward from local to regional and national tournaments in the RTT. But unless parents like Zhbanova's make an effort to promote their stars and find sponsors, they have no chance. Historically, tennis...