Word: compe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weakness too, though no one seemed to know the cause. Ambulances occasionally arrived to treat people for breathing problems, fainting, seizures, even strokes. Her children were the first to notice when the logic in her sentences began breaking down. By 1992 Polansky was bedridden and on workmen's comp...
Today 59-year-old Polansky is "better but still not 100%." She has used up her time on workmen's comp, which she was awarded for unrelated but disabling ergonomic pain. And she's been terminated by Southwest for failing to return to work within the 36 months allowed for medical leave. Along with half a dozen other employees who have spoken out about their health problems, Polansky is consumed by mounting medical bills, the cost of her lawsuits against the airline and the air-conditioning company that serviced the building, and by Southwest's countercharge that...
...Harvard, we are surrounded with institutions and the temptations of the glorious public recognition they provide. While at the College, we are asked to comp the exclusive Lampoon and Advocate, we are punched for final clubs or the Signet Society, and we are considered for official, titled roles in student organizations. In senior year, we are sought after by firms with names like Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, we are recruited by professional schools like Stanford Law and Harvard Medical, and we are nominated for Rhodes and Marshall scholarships...
...currents. "This pope cares about ideas," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "He is an intellecutal along with being a mystic, and since postmodernism challenges the harmony between faith and reason, he feels compelled to engage with it." Don't expect him to bump any French metatheorists off Comp Lit reading lists, but rare is the pontiff who displays an awareness of the prevailing wisdom in college-coffee-bar philosophy...
...space is also available for use by the greater Boston community. Prices are considerably lower than those of professional studios, which often charge over $50 per hour. At Quad Sound Studios, Harvard affiliates pay $15 per hour, all others $20. Sound engineers who have passed the Sound Studio's comp use the facility free of charge...