Word: ish
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...Nevins, most of these women are choosing not so much to drop out as to stop out, often with every intention of returning. Their mantra: You can have it all, just not all at the same time. Their behavior, contrary to some popular reports, is not a June Cleaver-ish embrace of old-fashioned motherhood but a new, nonlinear approach to building a career and an insistence on restoring some kind of sanity. "What this group is staying home from is the 80-hour-a-week job," says Hochschild. "They are committed to work, but many watched their mothers...
...same time she also realized that graduate school would be somewhat of an inevitability, even though she liked her job at Seventeen. Her first job at the magazine was not, as her character Rosalie summed up someone in an entry-level jobs as “assistant-ish looking person holding a stack of manila folders...
Growing up in an era where the U.N. has been made to symbolize peace, it is taboo in educated circles to reject the institution, even scoffed at as puerile or cowboy-ish. But the blind homage paid to the world body on this, the organization’s birthday, should not cloud the fact that the U.N., by virtue of its membership’s extremely divergent interests, is an impotent organization, powerless to truly halt affronts to human rights...
...Germany requiring a more intrusive inspection regime to satisfy international concerns over the potential for Tehran's nuclear energy program to camouflage a bomb program. Two prime candidates for further testing of the Bush administration's doctrine of preemptive warfare suddenly seem to morphing into exercises in Cold War-ish containment, engagement and coexistence...
Esquire called the book by the former George Magazine executive editor “unreflective, pompous, craven, exploitative, hanger-on-ish, and just horrendously written...