Word: longer
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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...
...likely to face the mayor in next year's Senate race. This act led to more press than even the publicity-ravenous Weinstein could consume. The Navy Yard's administrator issued a statement expressing concern that "...the party was beginning to take on a political cast and was no longer simply for the launch of a new magazine." You'd cancel too if it happened...
Some people should probably skip South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the new feature based on the Comedy Central cartoon series. A short list would include celebrities teased in the movie: the Baldwin brothers (they are killed en masse by the Royal Canadian Air Force); Conan O'Brien (he commits suicide by jumping from the GE Building); Winona Ryder (she performs an unusual exercise with Ping-Pong balls); Bill Gates (he is shot dead because Windows 98 isn't fast enough); Saddam Hussein (he has a gay affair with Satan and toys shamelessly with the Horned One's affections); Barbra Streisand...
...NICE NO LONGER The IRS is unplugging a popular charitable-giving scheme that is also a way to buy life insurance. Thousands of taxpayers have been writing off donations to charities that agree to use the money to buy life insurance for the donors and later split the benefits with their heirs. No longer. The IRS may subject taxpayers who use such a "charitable split trust" to a 20% underpayment penalty and may yank the tax-exempt status of participating charities...
...doing now what they should have done all along--honing verbal and math skills, preparing students to take advanced classes and tests like the SATs. "People can talk about tests being biased, but that's not going to fly anymore," says Santa Ana school superintendent Al Mijares. "No longer should we expect extra points for skin color and ZIP code...