Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flexible workforce of the 1990s, though, temps tend to stick around longer and end up blending right in, doing everything from developing complex computer software to editing magazines. Since they often stay in one (sometimes high-level) position for the long haul, they've earned the name "permatemps." The deal is supposed to benefit both parties; the workers aren't tied to the job, and the company doesn't shell out for costly benefits. But many temps feel like second-class corporate citizens, denied company perks like health insurance...
Those who know the French say they will never abandon their lifestyle--they are partial to their wines, their designers and their inalienable right to a certain of level arrogance derived from their position as the leading experts on how to live the good life. Nor will they relinquish their dreams of social equality--a political socialism in name although less so in spirit...
...victories in the ITA All-American Championships last October and the Rolex National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships in February gave him the respect of the tennis world, not just on the collegiate level. On June 14, Blake was named the Tennis Magazine/ITA National Player of the Year...
...victories in the ITA All-American Championships last October and the Rolex National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships in February gave him the respect of the tennis world, not just on the collegiate level. On June 14, Blake was named the Tennis Magazine/ITA National Player of the Year...
...Tour Lies. They aren't exactly lies, but rather selective descriptions, the sort of speech that gets people to buy the things they never needed, and, in its supreme form, to buy things they didn't even want. In the college world, these are large, impersonal classes at any level that you somehow feel privileged to join. At Harvard, Yale or any of these places, the grim reality of a 700-person introductory class with the professor far in the distance and a group of relatively unresponsive TF's becomes an unfortunate reality, but for someone to be actually touting...