Word: loss
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Televise a hearing today, and it ceases to be one. It becomes a chance to pillory your opponents, play-act morality and audition for your 15 minutes of cable fame. People not only choose sides, they also choose roles. Representative Bob Inglis, raw from his November loss to Senator Fritz Hollings, returned as the voice of the Lord, the Old Testament one. Representative Lindsey Graham's early turn as Hamlet turned out to be a search for an unoccupied spot on the opinion spectrum that might land him on Meet the Press. He found a "legal technicality" that allowed...
Fear of job loss appears to be a key factor in a widespread reluctance among staff members to speak openly about the problem. Many of the center's employees are working mothers afraid of being stranded, like Polansky, without company medical insurance. A 56-year-old male employee, who says he has been sick since he went to work for Southwest in 1992, consulted with his union representative and decided not to speak to TIME on the record; he was afraid going public would get him fired...
...most of the sick remain silent; $20 an hour is hard to find in San Antonio, not to mention profit sharing. "We went over the billion-dollar mark [in revenues] in June of this year," says a long-term employee who has the full array of symptoms, including memory loss and "a thing on my leg." It's "bigger than a silver dollar now," she says. "I just wish they knew how many people in this building are sick...
...Dean Sparagana will be a considerable loss for Harvard-she has a good rapport with students, proctors, and faculty", Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 wrote in an e-mail message...
...have nothing but great things to say", said John Tolsma, a proctor in Canaday. "Eleanor was a wise counsel. It's a great loss to the Yard...