Word: considerations
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It is even harder, of course, to fire anyone. Consider that out of 19,000 federal employees discharged last year, a mere 200 were dismissed for not doing their work properly. The rest were guilty of some serious infraction, such as not showing up for work, being drunk on the...
It was billed by Republican Senators as a roast of Jimmy Carter and his Attorney General Griffin Bell. But when the Senate Judiciary Committee began to consider Benjamin R. Civiletti's nomination as Deputy Attorney General last week, the mood was surprisingly low-key. Only a narrow attack was mounted...
Tiegs is about to waft off into celebrity, that peculiar state of matter that is like fame, only without responsibility. Celebrities do not have to do anything. Celebrity is held to be interesting in itself, and this interest in turn sustains the celebrity. Consider the recent photo of Tiegs boogying...
Acceptance of appointment sharing by colleges is by no means universal. For example, when Peter and Sue Ellen Gruber, both now biologists at Mount Holyoke, were looking for jobs, they applied for every possible combination?his, hers, theirs?with separate letters of recommendation to match. But one time they mistakenly...
THE ONLY MAJOR problem with this stirring masterpiece is the Tavinis' occasionally heavy-handed use of symbolism to hammer home a point. During the funeral procession for a slain Mafioso, pall-bearer Gavino fantasizes a statue of his father in place of the sculpted saint perched atop the coffin. And...