Word: lacks
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...unprepossessing start of the Kennedy campaign has been reflected in the lack of endorsements that might have been expected. A source close to New York Governor Hugh Carey, a Kennedy friend who has not yet committed himself, called the campaign "a plummeting star." In Arizona Kennedy told a crowd that he hoped to carry the state "with a little help from the Udalls." But Liberal Congressman Morris Udall introduced Kennedy only as "the man who some think might be the next President...
...Cyrus Vance and Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich. It is a business-academic think tank that uses Yankelovich's survey methods in six countries, and Gyllenhammar is its European chief. The early studies lead him to suspect that one American in four is distressed about his or her lack of a job or conditions of work. The young among them are increasingly disruptive; the older ones feel discarded, particularly if they have been laid off with some frequency...
...companies not to hire so many people in good times and not to fire so many in bad times. Instead of dismissing them, perhaps the company could train them for other jobs, which they would get when business turned up again. Says he: "People take the punishment for your lack of planning. One wonders how these people react when they are hired and laid off so often. What do they tell their children? To whom are they loyal? Certainly not to the company...
...Sussex. He has an American wife, Heather, two daughters, Willow and Rosie, and a son by a previous marriage. He exercises to keep in trim, but had to give up working with weights because his broadening shoulders only exaggerated his stature or, at 5 ft. 7 in., his lack of it. There is nothing much he can do about his hearing. Like Townshend's, it has been impaired by long exposure to maximum amplification. "When it's noisy," he says, "I have to lip-read...
Contemporary French cuisine is dominated by those superstar chefs who spend as much time writing glossy books and jetting around the world as they do tending their stoves. Because they lack the fame and, probably, the inclination, France's women chefs stick close to their restaurants, which may explain why they run many of the best bistros in that country. Also, as Madeleine Peter points out in The Great Women Chefs of France (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 333 pages; $14.95), these talented femmes have generally been excluded from the cooking schools and restaurant brigades where the men learn their...