Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staging of the work and who has had the supporting role of Agona, an Indian maiden, off and on since 1957. All seven of her children have been in the show. "Even so," Cora Mae went on, "I feel sorry for all those young girls; he just tears 'em up. Us old ones let it roll off our backs...
...laying off workers they suspect may be in the U.S. illegally. Some bosses fear they may be fined for hiring workers who present bogus credentials. These executives vow to be choosy about whom they employ, even at the risk of provoking antidiscrimination suits by rejected minority applicants. "Let 'em sue," says Arnold Schwedock, executive director of the New York-based Ladies Apparel Contractors Association. "Concern about penalties comes first...
Trench warfare of this kind is waged not against men and kids, but against loneliness and self-pity. The quick, hit-'em-again-with-another-joke style fits the desperate nature of the combat. The young mother who reads it may have a degree in psychology from Michigan State, but as she cleans up after the puppy while trying to separate two children who are fighting over a linty piece of bubble gum, she may not be in the mood for compound-complex sentences. She may smile over a column by Art Buchwald, the master of the discovered absurdity...
...meters with his cedar stick. He said he used to walk around whacking them when the meter tops were attached, but the city had the meters taken off because they cost too much to keep in good repair. "It used to make a bigger racket before they cut 'em down...
...Shales says that when he first watched "Nightline" four years ago, he thought its em-basis on television monitors "was ludicrous." Koppel says that "Nightline's" style has produced new unwanted "clones of hundreds of people longs live interviews with TV screens, whether son 'Live at Five' or 'More at Four...