Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than $1 million was spent renovating bathrooms and sleeping quarters to accommodate women. Crewmen received color-coded brochures on how they should act around their female shipmates. (A polite compliment, for example, was in the "green zone" and acceptable. "Red zone" behavior included promising promotions for sex.) Squadron commanders conducted seminars for pilots' wives, some of whom were nervous about their husbands working in close quarters with female aviators. Doctors trained in gynecology were brought on board. The ship's barbers were even given classes in cutting women's hair...
...women, a manager, says she had her first experience with Bolduc's more than collegial style in an elevator. "He paid me a compliment, then reached over and put his right hand on my left butt cheek. Fortunately, the elevator had reached our floor, so I just stepped aside and walked him to the [building's] exit...
...kind of funny--people will come up aftera show and tell me they usually hate countrymusic, but they love the way I do it. I guessthat's a compliment, right?" she laughs...
...Yeah," admits Mark, who works in international customer service for United Parcel Service. He laughs and adds, "She gets jealous of some of the girls in the office," then explains how Laura once visited him at his previous job and became uncomfortable after she overheard him repeatedly compliment a female co-worker on her job performance. Laura smiles nervously, fidgets with a pen and says nothing...
...read the material verbatim on the air. The scheme worked handsomely; the Rush Republicans went to the polls. Limbaugh's clout is immense; former Congressman Vin Weber says Rush is as responsible as anyone else for the G.O.P. victory, and last week the Democrats of Texas paid him the compliment of a "Crush Rush with the Truth" campaign to fight his views by heckling stations and pressuring advertisers. Limbaugh, of course, loves the attention...