Word: effort
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...Marriott family has assumed a national role in the effort to provide the disabled with good jobs. In 1989 it started the Marriott Foundation for People with Disabilities, which has placed about 3,000 disabled people ages 18 to 22 in paid private-sector internships lasting as long as three or four months. The foundation has worked with 1,150 employers in various parts of the country, says foundation executive director Mark Donovan. Almost 90% of these people received job offers after their internships ended...
Smaller corporations have followed the Marriott example. Terry Neese, who owns a personnel agency with a staff of 14 in Oklahoma City, makes an effort to work with local training institutes in her area to help place people with disabilities in jobs. Neese's personal motivation: her granddaughter Emily, 4, does not have a fully developed left arm. "I know my granddaughter will grow up to have a brilliant mind and a willing spirit," Neese says. "But what kinds of opportunities will she find available out there? I want to set an example in my own company." For example, Neese...
...called to account, both have been dismissive of the legal process and have had a strained relationship with the truth. These qualities have landed both men in similar binds: Clinton is waiting to hear if he will be removed from office, Gates is fending off the Justice Department's effort to rein in, or even carve up, Microsoft. Their flaws will take center stage this week, as both men mount defenses in their respective trials...
After some historical ups and downs, homework in this country is at a high-water mark. In the early decades of the century progressive educators in many school districts banned homework in primary school in an effort to discourage rote learning. The cold war--specifically, the launch of Sputnik in 1957--put an end to that, as lawmakers scrambled to bolster math and science education in the U.S. to counter the threat of Soviet whiz kids. Students frolicked in the late 1960s and '70s, as homework declined to near World War II levels. But fears about U.S. economic competitiveness...
...risk has scored many successes, and I don't want to be ungrateful. But as more time, effort and money go into the crusade, bringing increasingly marginal gains, you have to start wondering: Is all this safety worth the fear it brings...