Word: pinched
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...supports an ; invalid husband. "But today 3 million French are out of work. My neighbor committed suicide when he lost his job. Families are shattering." Whether stung by France's 10% jobless rate, by recession in Britain or by the costs of unification in Germany, voters are feeling the pinch -- and they are taking it out on Maastricht, the politicians' pet project. "Everyone is looking for scapegoats," says Cognac city councilor Jerome Mouhot. "Brussels is a convenient target...
...deeper affection growing between him and his father, "Punch" Sulzberger. One editor observed, "Arthur took on some of Punch's winning characteristics -- his self-deprecating humor, his listening rather than talking." (He did not find it humorous, however, when people tried to stick him with the obvious diminutive "Pinch.") When, just after being named publisher, he said that it gave him comfort to know that his father would remain as company chairman and be there to counsel him, colleagues believed...
...this," says Janet Norwood, the former U.S. commissioner of labor statistics. "It used to be that when we had a recession, everyone would wait to be rehired. But the psychology now is that many of these jobs are not going to come back." White-collar workers are feeling the pinch as never before. Harvard economist James Medoff points out that white-collar employees constitute 36% of the country's unemployed workers, compared with 22% during the 1982 slump...
...more important than sexual- harassment training," says Senior Chief Radioman Rusanne Anthony. The Navy's officers also need to set a better example. "We haven't had leaders who modeled the proper behavior," says Kay Krohne, a retired Navy commander. "We have officers who pay lip service, then pinch their secretary's butt...
...suspension bridge and as theatrical as a butterfly. "Elegance and comfort," he once wrote, "are not incompatible." From the moment he began making shoes in 1907 until his death in 1960, his motto was that women did not have to suffer to be beautiful; shoes did not have to pinch to be chic...