Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with an imperfect grasp of English, are put at the controls of dangerous machinery, with predictable results. In Texas six major explosions at chemical plants and refineries have killed 47 workers in the past five years and injured 1,000 more. Subcontract employees were believed to have been at fault in two, the blasts at Arco and Phillips...
...clipboard pads or handy scraps of paper. On his sea voyage -- where he was writing Six Months Off, a memoir of stepping out of his professional life -- Alexander made a list of things to be accomplished each day and crossed them off each evening. "If he has a fault, it is that he is not much at having a whole helluva lot of fun," says Haley...
...till the end of time. In binary terms, 9 is 1001 -- the number of adventure and romance; in England you dial 999 for emergencies (to reverse, perhaps, the diabolic effect of 666). Yet 9 also has an edge to it, the menace that comes from lying along a fault line: it is the number just before the boxer is counted out, the cat runs out of lives, the lover slams the door...
...doubt anticipating inferior care, many blacks avoid doctors and hospitals altogether. Black women report a prevalent attitude among gynecologists that anything wrong might be the patient's own fault. "Back a few years ago, I was having excruciating abdominal pain, and I wound up at a hospital in my area," says Alicia Georges, who lives in the Bronx and is a professor of nursing at Lehman College. "The first thing they began to ask me was how many sexual partners I'd had. I was married and owned my own house. But immediately, in looking at me, they said...
...does strike me as ironic that extensive, quality undergraduate teaching experience does not mean much in the hiring process at many top universities. Maybe that's because most of their tenured faculties don't know what it is. But it's not their fault; it wasn't what got them tenured...