Word: failings
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...easy -- and perhaps too facile -- means of ascertaining a job applicant's "honesty and personal integrity." Yet companies are required by law to inform job applicants if their credit record played a role in their rejection and to identify the source of the negative information. Many employers fail to follow that law, but the FTC is cracking down. Last week four companies, including St. Louis-based aerospace giant McDonnell Douglas and New York retailer Macy's, settled FTC charges that they failed to tell passed-over applicants their credit records had been examined. The companies agreed to give rejected...
...Many of these young people go to universities with great illusions, and many fail," she said...
...flummoxes his teacher with complex answers to simple questions. (Q. Which of the numbers one through nine can be divided by two? A. All of them.) On the schoolyard asphalt he draws elaborate Madonnas in colored chalk. But he can't catch a basketball without falling down, or fail to be oppressed by his genius. Seems Fred is a kid too, envying the boy's ease of one rowdy, popular classmate: "All I want is someone I can eat lunch with." He's a Mozart in awe of Bart Simpson...
...world order. "I'm very worried about it," he said. "Here's a whole hemisphere that's moving the democratic way, and along comes Haiti now, overthrowing an elected government." When the old Stalinists made their power play in Moscow two months ago, Bush observed that "coups can fail." He intends to ensure the same outcome this time...
...support a presidential campaign. The leading Democratic advocate of civic obligation is Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, who announced his candidacy last week. Beyond sharing the views of Etzioni and Conner, Clinton has actually succeeded in having some of the "responsibilities" philosophy codified in law. For example, Arkansas parents who fail to attend parent-teacher conferences can be fined, and students who drop out of school are denied driver's licenses. "Not everything we do that is wrong is illegal," says Clinton. "The trick is to provide the incentives and disincentives that can curb such behavior...