Word: decentering
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Although he faces more seasoned opponents,Quillen says he thinks his chances for victory are"decent...
...Anschluss became a security officer at hospitals for the aged, infirm and imbecilic, and helped--humanely at first, so they said--to ease the very worst cases, the utterly hopeless, the deformed and subhuman, toward a death that all reasonable people at the time thought would be the only decent thing. Having launched himself upon the course, Stangl did a giant slalom down the slippery slope and before too long found himself working as commandant of Treblinka, a Nazi extermination camp in Poland. There, Stangl presided over the death of 900,000 Jews...
...course, long ago converted into a brand name, constantly fussed over, ferociously defended, first by Disney, latterly by his corporate heirs and assigns. Serving as a beacon for parents seeking clean, decent entertainment for their children, the Disney logo--a stylized version of the founder's signature--more generally promises us that anything appearing beneath it will not veer too far from the safe, sound and above all cheerful American mainstream, which it defines as much as serves...
...things that employees today take for granted. Year by year, workers gained, among others, comprehensive health-care programs, tuition-refund programs, life insurance, profit sharing, severance pay, prepaid legal-service plans, bereavement pay, jury-duty pay--plus improvements in vacations, holidays and rest time. The negotiation of decent working, health and safety conditions, coupled with a sound grievance procedure, added immeasurably to the personal sense of dignity and self-respect of the worker...
...short to kinky and long, from greased and "pressed" (with a stocking cap) to straightened, waved or jerry-curled. But it was Madam C.J. Walker, as the historian Rayford W. Logan maintains, who "made straight hair 'good hair,'" and in doing so, made a fortune for herself and a decent standard of living for a work force of "agents" that numbered 20,000 in the U.S. and the Caribbean...