Word: decentering
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...teaches people how to file complaints and what to file, then in fact many more complaints would come forward and more women would be defending their rights to work in a decent environment," says Terry L. Karl, associate professor of political science at Stanford University and a former Harvard scholar who was sexually harassed here in the early 1980s...
...SUPPOSE I should get my biases out in the open. I covered the Red Sox for a couple weeks this summer, so I've met people like Matt Young (total jerk), Danny Darwin (decent fellow) and Lou Gorman (The Establishment personified...
...Dowds contends that despite the more modern, with-the-times merchandise Harvard Square now offers, in many respects the area is becoming less user-friendly. "You cannot get a decent meal at a reasonable price in Harvard Square," he says. "The student demand brings the food down to the lowest common denominator...
Every day, an average of 20 American couples adopt babies from overseas. Most of them come from Third World nations where orphanages are overflowing, abandoned children sleep in the streets, and poor parents see foreign adoption as one of the few ways to give their children a decent life. In the U.S., the number of foreign-born adoptees has ranged from 7,000 to 10,000 each year since 1983. About 13,000 foreign-born children are adopted annually in Western Europe, Canada and elsewhere...
...vivid in the Raymond Chandler style. "I've seen eyes like yours above a dueling pistol," he says to Scarlett. "They evoke no ardor in the male breast." Ripley's Rhett is frequently wordy and inelegant: "You're dead weight -- unlettered, uncivilized, Catholic, and an exile from everything decent in Atlanta. You could blow up in my face any minute...