Word: enjoyable
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Whitehead's employment was the opposite of Jane Eyre's in that she was engaged not to nurture a growing child but simply to produce the entity so that her employer might enjoy the nurturing. Curiously, her work was not unlike a substitute soldier's, since it involved a potential risk of life for pay and provided a service to enhance a collective (a family instead of a country) of which she could not feel a part. Purely in terms of fair labor practices, her provision of nearly a year's work for $10,000 raises an issue of equity...
...televangelists. He is irritated by all the criticism of the Bakkers. "These people have done a lot of good in their lives," he says. I. Delbert Rose, an Idaho freight salesman, is not bothered by the lavish life-style that the Robertses and the Bakkers are said to enjoy. To him, "their rewards should be great, because they've done great things for the Lord...
Layoffs. White males appear to enjoy greater legal protection in job-loss situations than in affirmative-action cases covering hiring and promotion. Last year the high court rejected a Jackson, Mich., plan that laid off white teachers while retaining black teachers with less seniority. The plan, said the court, violated the equal-protection clause of the Constitution...
...years ago. Despite this, the clubs maintain the ties that really count, those with the Harvard community at large. The recent news that an employee in the development office, Nancy Couch, works on her own time as a consultant to the Porcellian Club highlights the enduring place the clubs enjoy at Harvard...
...Nature lovers will enjoy walks along public paths around the island's perimeter and hiking through the acres of woodlands and grassy clearings that are part of the Harvard properties," reads a brochure advertising scenic Sutton Island that was recently circulated by Harvard Real Estate to faculty members. The island, "a place for quiet retreat and enjoyment of nature," is the site of Harvard's Kendall and Paine Houses...