Word: elder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hands-on experience are still at a premium, corporations are adapting at the fringes. Rather than a fat expense account and a company car, firms are offering things like flexible work plans (job sharing and part-time employment) or on-site day-care programs, parenting classes, referrals to elder care for aging parents, and tuition money for college-bound kids. The alternative, they know, is that they may lose "the best and most creative employees in their fields," says Peter Elinsky, partner in charge of compensation and benefits at KPMG Peat Marwick in Washington...
...throw a parade in his honor. And you?d be hard-pressed to find a reporter with space stations on his mind at the Discovery press conference. How did Senator Glenn feel? "Ninety-five or 98 percent back to normal," he said. Does he have a message for the elder generation? "Don?t sit on a couch someplace, that?s my attitude." Will he return to space yet again? Only if his wife, Annie, lets him, said the senator, and only if there were "some rising demand." Considering the trouble NASA is having getting the ISS off the ground, administrator...
When he was just a ruddy-faced lad newly graduated from Ole Miss, Jim Barksdale applied for work as a salesman for the first monopoly of the info age, IBM. Barksdale had an in: his elder brother and mentor, Jack, was already employed by Big Blue. Alas, the advantage proved to be short-lived. "I don't know if I can have two Barksdales working for me," said the sales manager who interviewed...
...would guarantee the plain civil rights of homosexuals--you know, you can't lose your job or your home because you're gay, that kind of thing. They misrepresented it as special treatment, and put it about that gay people have a hidden agenda (like the Protocols of the Elder Zion that anti-Semites cite) to destroy the American family. They--we, I mean--are sinful, immoral, sick. The Christian Coalition had Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 come out from Harvard, Veritas glittering from his escutcheon, to testify in support of their crusade, and they...
...current unease concerns her identity as a Catholic martyr. Christian conversion is a delicate subject to Jews, since historically it often took place under duress. Although Stein's conversion was clearly voluntary, her "atonement" declaration rankles. (It also contradicts the current Pope's repeated description of the Jews as "elder brothers in faith.") But what most bothers the critics is the assumption that Stein's death resulted from her Catholicism. Witnesses reported that when she tried to confess her faith, an Auschwitz guard rebuffed her with the words, "You damned Jew." Thus her canonization strikes some as the hijacking...