Word: explicitness
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Generally, says AARP, employment agencies are part of the problem rather than the solution. In fact, its about-to-be-published study asserts, agencies discriminate more often and more blatantly than employers who hire directly. "With or without explicit instructions from their clients," says AARP, "many employment agencies assume that older applicants...should be automatically screened...
Whether this turns out to be the key factor or just one of many, the trend toward more damaging hurricanes is clear. The reason was made explicit in a study done by Christopher Landsea, a research meteorologist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, and Roger A. Pielke Jr., a social scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. They looked at the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history and then, says Pielke, posed the question: "If history repeats itself, and it certainly will, what might we expect?" To answer...
...their growing acceptability that they seemed unfazed when New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani padlocked sex shops this month in Times Square. That's because most of the industry's money is made in suburban video stores. Almost as much is earned on cable-TV systems that make sexually explicit films available on pay-per-view and adult channels. Steve Hirsch, president of Los Angeles-based Vivid Video, the world's largest producer of adult films, dismisses the loss of Times Square: "We're not going to lose any customers...
...about as unanimous as we ever get, agree that "having sex with a prostitute" counts. On the other end of the survey's scale is "casually flirting with someone else," considered adulterous by a (hard to live with?) minority of 35%. Somewhere in the middle are "having a sexually explicit conversation with someone on the phone" (69% define that as cheating), "having a sexually explicit conversation on the Internet" (67%) and "holding hands with someone else" (44%). Perhaps regrettably, the survey's list of offensive conduct did not include "having some sort of as yet undisclosed physical contact with...
...enough of ?Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,? Monday sees the launch of the family-oriented PAX TV, the seventh (!) national network. PAX promises to be ?Free of explicit sex. Free of senseless violence. Free of foul language.? Cynics might add ?Free of profits,? but just in case I?m wrong, remember this for future trivia games: PAX TV?s first program is a sanitized ?Today? show called ?Great Day America.? It starts at noon...