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What happened? Your prospective employer may have checked out your credit record. According to the Federal Trade Commission, employers are increasingly using credit reports as an easy -- and perhaps too facile -- means of ascertaining a job applicant's "honesty and personal integrity." Yet companies are required by law to inform job applicants if their credit record played a role in their rejection and to identify the source of the negative information. Many employers fail to follow that law, but the FTC is cracking down. Last week four companies, including St. Louis-based aerospace giant McDonnell Douglas and New York retailer...
...witnessed on television the suffering of Kimberly Bergalis -- the 23- year-old Floridian who contracted AIDS from her dentist. Her anguished letters and poignant testimony before Congress have sparked a nationwide campaign, endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to test health- care workers for HIV and inform their patients if they are infected...
...commodity (actor) becomes a lasting presence. The movie can stand as both an artful commentary on growing up strange and a calling-card film for a director who promises much and delivers most of it. Still, reverberations from Foster's extraordinary youth pulse through Scott Frank's script and inform the fierce care the director took in realizing...
...INFORMATION MEETINGS--Many companies hold Information Meetings in the Fall to inform students about job opportunites. These meetings are listed in the OCS Newsletter in the On-Campus Recruiting section. Although it is not mandatory that you sign up for these meetings, it is recommended that you do so in the Recruiting Office, Room 209. Be sure to check the Newsletter for the time and location of the meeting i.e. Faculty Club, OCS, Charles Hotel, Phillips Brooks House, etc. There is a Group Meeting List posted in the front hall of OCS and also in the Recruiting Office each week...
...other times, an artist will refer to his roots by inscribing a tribute within the actual painting. Thankfully, the organizers, Dr. Claudia Brown and Dr. Ju-hsi Chou, frequently inform the viewer of this, as in the case of Zhang Pengchong's Landscape: Brush Marks in Blue and Green (early 18th cent.) This pain ting's subtle coloring is inspired by Sheng Zhou, an artist who worked 300 years earlier...