Word: hardding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slump may also prompt fraudsters to rationalize their behavior. According to a survey published in February by British insurer RSA, 3% of adult Britons said hard economic times made committing insurance fraud more acceptable. We're seeing that already: the number of fraudulent claims rose 17% in the U.K. last year, with commercial claims accounting for a third of their value. (See pictures of the financial crisis in London...
...existence of a GPS system that keeps track of people's locations gets into the tricky moral issue of lying. Pre-GPS, people would tell lies about why they were late all of the time. There may not have been much harm in it, especially since it was hard to verify whether someone's claim was true. (See a story...
...mere losses, but as opportunities for the University to refine its priorities and reexamine its identity. “I think it forces us to ask who we are and who we intend to be,” Faust said. “We have to make very hard choices, we have to be willing to give some things up, and all of us are going to be finding ourselves doing things differently.” Despite all the financial constraints of the past year, the Faculty worked unhindered, Faust said, as she recited the many achievements made by members...
...bill was introduced in Congress that would protect all students - including gay or transgender ones - from bullying and harassment and would require schools to report on the prevalence of such harmful activity to the Department of Education each year. But bullying is a problem teachers and administrators say is hard to define, let alone monitor - and one that could leave schools open to more lawsuits from the parents of bullied children. Indeed, a lawyer for Atlanta resident Masika Bermudez says she plans to sue the DeKalb County School System for a "substantial amount" for alleged negligence involving her 11-year...
...working hard to make sure there is a universal understanding of what bullying is," said Dr. Gale Thomas, director of student-support services for DeKalb County schools...