Word: menials
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...Sunday, in his last act as president, Gustav Husak swore in a Cabinet whose members include people he had jailed or stripped of all but the most menial jobs. The new Cabinet gave the country its first government dominated by non-Communists since...
Emphasize the positive in an interview.One employer told students never to apologize fortheir concentrations. Stress the value of yourliberal arts education - you have learned tothink, to communicate, to analyze problems andpose solutions. Don't downgrade any menial workexperience you may have had. Some work experienceis better than none; at the very least, you havebeen part of an organization and learned how itfunctioned. If you worked your way throughHarvard, that effort itself will win the respectof many employers...
...remainder of the day is filled with menial labor: whacking weeds, swabbing floors, painting walls, marching in formation. As they half-step, an officer asks, "What is the word for the day?" The platoon answers, "Self- discipline. We like it. We love it. We want more of it, sir!" At 10 p.m., it is lights...
...wanted to hide from the stifling hopelessness that permeated the house, to cry for the menial, wasted lives of so many people trapped in their own inadequacy. I wanted to escape the cloud of despondency that dazed my mind and numbed my spirit...
...last week's North Carolina case, a former teller at a Winston-Salem credit union sought to use a Reconstruction-era statute to make her case of racial harassment against her former employer. Among other things, she claimed that she had been asked to do menial tasks because she was black. Speaking for the majority, Kennedy said the statute prohibited "the refusal to enter into a contract" based on race, but not discrimination involving "postformation conduct" under a contract. Sniped dissenting Justice William Brennan: "What the court declines to snatch away with one hand, it takes with the other...