Word: hides
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...survey respondents--to take on social-outreach activities. The more hours they put in on the job, the more time they devote to volunteerism. Many take on leadership roles in their volunteer work, learning and honing skills that translate directly back to their jobs. But they downplay or even hide their volunteerism, sensing tacit disapproval from bosses. "It's not the opera or a charity, which the corporate world recognizes. It's church work and homeless shelters," says Hewlett. By masking their contributions outside the office, minority women professionals deny their employers huge amounts of what the study calls "cultural...
Church work is a particularly touchy topic. Minority women executives--71%--are more likely than nonminority peers to belong to a house of worship. Among African Americans, that figure is 84%, among whom 25% hold a leadership role, compared with 16% of white men. But many hide their affiliations, reluctant to mix religion and work and also to reinforce stereotypes. Angela Williams, 42, a vice president and deputy general counsel at Sears Holding Corp. and a former federal prosecutor, never talked at the office about the fact that she is an ordained Baptist minister. "It's the same reason...
...greatest struggles caregivers face is trying to relate to a loved one with Alzheimer's--especially in the later stages of the disease, when you can enter a room and have your own mother hide under the covers. Singing or humming as you walk in can ease your entry. "People with Alzheimer's often respond to music when they respond to nothing else," says Suzanne Hanser, chair of music therapy at Berklee College of Music in Boston. After all, if someone is singing, everything must...
...result in a government agency's decision to kill all poultry. Would I be able to maintain the diversity and beauty of my backyard flock, producing eggs for my community, if a bureaucrat decided to demonstrate the government's power to control? I'm already planning a place to hide my chickens. Sue Kolbo Red Bluff, California...
...challenge. Penetrating terror organizations as formally structured as the i.r.a. was tough, even for Northern Ireland?born intelligence operatives; so much harder, then, for the average local police officer to discover the plans of ad-hoc teams of murderers like the men who bombed Madrid and London, and who hide among Muslim communities that are themselves relatively impenetrable. But frustrating as it might be to the authorities, the collective wisdom of our ancestors says that before you can be imprisoned, you must first be caught, tried and convicted...