Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"I think that would be a total disaster," one source said. "It would be bringing in the same garbage that's hurt the place."
Excepting a few scenes of adulterous frivol among the ruling class, the film is remarkably fair-minded in doling out bad hands to workers and bosses. But because the theme is that the Industrial Revolution ground human beings into human beasts, Berri can't explore the very individual perfidy that...
The third property of prohibited speech is that it has the effect of creating an educational environment that is seriously intimidating, hostile or degrading (among other possibilities). But what objective standards can determine whether some speech creates one of these kinds of educational environments? The only way to discover if...
Most Angelenos went back to their jobs soon after the quake, possibly finding some of that refuge there, but employers discovered a phenomenon they call "on-the-job absenteeism." Workers take interminable breaks, have difficulty concentrating and generally show low productivity. "The reality is that many people are going to...
Add to that the fact that none of this sides would be satisfied with such a pee and large numbers of foreign troops would probably be needed to keep it, and you have a recipe for disaster, or at least serious chickening out on the part of the West.