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...different dispute may be heading toward a courtroom in Florida. Until recently, Brenda Taylor was an assistant state attorney in Broward County, Fla. But earlier this year she was reprimanded by her boss, John Countryman, because of the clothes she favored for court appearances. Taylor, 25, has a penchant for short skirts, designer blouses, ornate jewelry and spike heels with colored hosiery. She says she has a flair for fashion. Countryman told her she looked like a "bimbo." In September, after Taylor complained to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she was fired. Though told that the dismissal reflected...
Several members of the public said the Community Development Department might not be trustworthy enough to be given such broad control of zoning policy. Some said the department has a penchant for secrecy, noting that copies of last night's proposal were not distributed to the public...
...BOSS? Nevertheless, Bush and Dukakis have developed into better TV performers than one might have expected. The Vice President still steps on too many of his own applause lines, and cannot shake a penchant for bloopers (last week's premature observance of Pearl Harbor day). But his very awkwardness has become a sign of sincerity, and anger becomes him -- woundedly defending, for instance, his reference to some of his grandchildren as "little brown ones." If Bob Newhart took assertiveness training, he might turn out to be George Bush...
...charge is Murdoch. Says Investment Banker Veronis of the Triangle deal: "At our first meeting, he carefully picked up each publication, and we talked about the content and the market that the publication reached. There are very few people who are editorially astute and who have a penchant to learn about business. Murdoch is the best...
...Democrats spent four days bashing Bush and it paid off. Bush is an easy target: a bumbling and boring rich boy with a penchant for looking silly. A man disliked by an amazing percentage of the American electorate, if the latest polls are to be believed. So what are the Republicans...