Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, testing is likely to spread, and many workers are, to say the least, uncomfortable with the idea. Peter Appelt, a Government employee, had to walk through an office full of people with a little cup in hand to get a promotion. "It was quite embarrassing," he says. "A nurse followed me into the men's room and stood outside the stall." He passed the test, and is now a senior inspector for the Customs Service at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...
...black truffles. Anyone who refers to Kelly's origins as "poor black" is quickly set straight with a portrait of working-class warmth. "They expect that you come off some family that picked cotton with holes in their shoes," he says. "My grandmother worked for rich white people. Our hand-me-downs were good hand-me-downs!" Though Kelly's grandmother was a cook, his mother was a home economics teacher with a master's degree, his father, a fishmonger, insurance agent and cabdriver...
...real loser was the centrist Christian Democratic Party of incumbent President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is terminally ill with cancer. Having lost control of the legislature to ARENA a year ago, the Christian Democrats will hand over the chief executive's office on June...
...leadership vacuum, as older business people retire from civic life. And the town's young people show no inclination to stay. When a visitor asked a class of 20 Clay County high school students how many would stay in town or return after college, not a single hand went up. Volunteered their teacher: "They're not being...
Until now, the West has been remarkably shy about taking a hand in the process of change. Entranced by Gorbachev and anxious to believe the cold war is nearly over, the West has been reluctant to tamper in his sphere of influence. Preoccupied with other regions, Washington in particular has not paid more than occasional attention to Eastern Europe. Wariness is wise, but the current indecision has been paralytic...