Word: duncan
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...estimates that the cost of accommodation is $500 a person on average, Gallegos says. The payoff? "The benefit to the company of accommodating people is that we have a much richer pool of employees to choose from," says Emily Duncan, director of diversity and work life. "The investment we make in our people allows them to be more productive in the workplace. After all, talent comes in all kinds of packages...
...photographers have great eyes. Brassai's were bouncing balls under aerodynamic eyebrows. You can pretty much imagine them in action when he told people how he got seriously involved with the camera, a development he liked to explain by way of a story he heard from Isadora Duncan, the famous dancer. For a long time she couldn't bear the sight of the pianist whom her rich lover had hired as her accompanist. One day she and the luckless musician were riding face-to-face in a carriage. Suddenly it pulled up short, and she was flung into his arms...
...wasn't. (That was Isadora Duncan for you.) But in 1929, when Brassai was finally launched into the embrace of photography, after years of resisting its charms, it really was for keeps. Though the young Hungarian arrived in Paris in 1924 ambitious to be a painter, he spent his first years working as a journalist. Eventually he started taking pictures to accompany his articles. It was his initial embarrassment at mere picture taking that led him to publish his photos under a pseudonym, Brassai, a Hungarian word meaning "from Brasso," his childhood village. He wanted to save his birth name...
...course, this may just be what people think the pollsters want to hear. "There's a real disconnect between what people tell a pollster they want and what they will actually read," says former TIME executive editor Richard L. Duncan. After all, somebody's buying all those "Special Crisis in the White House" editions -- even if they feel bad about it afterward...
...support the national party lacks. But why not runner-up New York, where mayor Rudy Giuliani and Governor George Pataki have Manhattan's crime rate way down and the city's popularity way up? "New York is still hostile territory for most Republicans," says veteran TIME political reporter Richard Duncan. "It's closer now than ever, but it's still seen as a deeply liberal city. They're still not ready." Maybe after Jesse Helms retires...