Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looking for ways to support workers who are burdened by care-giving obligations. Such benefits, they expect, will raise productivity, reduce absenteeism and allow them to hang on to valued employees who might otherwise quit. Travelers Corp. has offered lunchtime support groups, flextime hours and an information fair for employees to meet with social service experts. PepsiCo provides seminars and a handbook on care of the elderly. Remington Products Inc., of Bridgeport, Conn., pays half the cost of parent sitters who can take over for employees on evenings and weekends...
...trail along in their retinues. Lapham's background and his access to the mighty have given him a privileged perch from which to view the past few decades of U.S. history. He believes he has seen something new, and he is not happy about it: "I think it fair to say that the current ardor of the American faith in money easily surpasses the degrees of intensity achieved by other societies in other times and places...
Congressmen are arguing that statistical adjustments be made to reform current census counting problems for another reason. They say that without fair adjustment for incorrect population data, state congressional districts are inaccurately drawn, leading to misrepresentation in Congress...
...possible that Thernstrom's attitude may have seemed careless at times, or condescending. However, his intent is what must be considered. His presentation of the material was fair and at no time favored one racial or ethnic group over another. One must act on the assumption that any apparent condescension was due to thoughtlessness or to the inherent awkwardness of the material itself...
...Wolfe's choice of characters holds no surprises--although, to be fair, it is rare for any bestselling author to make these people his topic--for the reader, his execution is superb. Wolfe's journalistic style translates exceptionally well to the novelistic form. The story itself is punctuated with staccato syllables and stream of consciousness musings. Wolfe communicates with the reader on a sensory level that subsumes traditional language. The chapter called "The King of the Jungle," begins with this onomonopaeic passage...