Word: handicaps
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Ehrenreich wonders why employers are so addicted to pre-employment personality tests. It's no mystery. These tests simply provide documented reasons to turn down an application from a person of an undesired race, sex or age or with a physical handicap, deformity or other characteristic for which discrimination is illegal or actionable. GEOFFREY A. GASS Portland...
...ECAC schedule had a built-in weakness that became a greater handicap each year. Now there is room for either an extra road trip or a perhaps another in-season tournament. Not only does this bolster the well—being of the teams in the conference, but it makes the league more exciting...
...rebel, you might want to heed the advice of Susan McHale, a professor of human development at Penn State University, who says parents can minimize the "handicap" of close spacing by carefully preparing the older child for the birth of the younger (don't promise an instant playmate); by teaching the children to empathize with one another in the preschool years; by helping them play without competing throughout childhood; and by continuing to spend time with the two of them--together--even after they reach adolescence...
...Phillips) who's brought in from out of town to investigate the goings-on, there is apparently a CBS corporate memo forbidding its employees to mention the title "Twin Peaks" in connection with it. (It also stars Tim Matheson, "The West Wing"'s vice president, if that helps you handicap the odds of Josiah Bartlet's veep challenging him for the White House...
...almost never see each other again, story has a happy ending) the execution certainly makes this production one of the best this semester. Carmichael creates characters who are interesting and emotionally engaging. Donald is a shy, uncertain teen who grapples with the untimely death of his parents and the handicap his medical condition imposes on him. D is a boisterous, and sometimes obnoxious youth who is looking for some fun (which often means trouble). Trix is the third member of this motley crew; the mini lapses of violent behavior that interrupt his calm and sophisticated demeanor give him the nickname...