Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next time a stranded friend calls collect, the familiar phrase "Will you accept the charges?" could have a distinctly different sound. Last week AT&T announced that it will replace as many as a third of its 18,000 long-distance operators by 1994 with a computerized voice system. Known as voice-recognition technology, it will handle calls made collect or person-to-person as well as those billed to a third party...
Like the majority of South Africans, she is not allowed the vote or other elementary political rights because of her race. Moreover, in this country the phrase, "white South African," suggests a member of a privileged and oppressive elite. To describe Andrews as such is not only inaccurate but also misleading...
...most of his 42 years, Kreimer was one of the "status people," a catchall phrase he uses to describe middle-class workaday folks. He grew up in a prosperous household, the son of Victor and Katy Kreimer, a prominent local couple. But even as a kid, friends recall, he was kind of "dopey," a bit rebellious and unmotivated in school...
Although the force reduction actually began in 1990, most of the earlier downsizing was accomplished through attrition and reduced recruiting. Now the dread phrase "involuntary separation" is in vogue, and pink slips are about to go out by the thousands. Air Force Sergeant Cindy Gunter, 33, of Pope A.F.B., Fayetteville, N.C., is leaving halfway through a career she hoped would span 20 years. "I'm being thrown out, that's the way I look at it," she says. "They're making me go. I don't have a choice...
Darshak M. Sanghavi '92, a former AAA vicepresident, said he doubts the slur will receivethe concern it deserves. He said he believes astronger campus response would have resulted ifthe phrase had read "nigger" instead of "chink...