Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compelled to give the offending employee 90 days' notice before he issues the bad grade. During this time, the employee is able to build up a substantial defense. He can then make a series of appeals with full-dress hearings that can drag on for months. Understandably, managers prefer to give everybody a passing grade in order to avoid the hassle...
...building will cost no more, and offer tenants greater variety, than conventional offices. Besides sliding French windows, there will be balconies that provide shade, individually controlled lighting known in trade parlance as "task lighting," and heat pumps that transfer hot air to chilly spots and vice versa. Tenants who prefer air-conditioning in hermetically sealed offices can create that environment by using the heat pumps...
Smilansky was a Haganah intelligence officer in that war, and the fictional village of Hirbet Hiza was patterned after a real community where he witnessed similar events. The novella thus deals with a dark side of history that many Israelis would prefer to forget. One of the country's best-known authors, Amos Elon (The Israelis: Founders and Sons), describes Smilansky's work as "perhaps the most conscience-stricken, deliberately guilt-ridden piece of contemporary Israeli literature." Hirbet Hiza is required reading in Israeli high schools and has been translated into Arabic. Last week, however, when Israel...
...efficient, 229-seat Airbus, made by a French-German-Spanish consortium, will be a strong challenger. Neither McDonnell Douglas nor Lockheed has yet announced new high-technology planes. Instead, they will offer modernized versions of the DC-10 and L-1011. Boeing is gambling big that the airlines will prefer an all-new plane that will still be flying, and coming out in up-to-date versions of its own, in the year...
...kinsman to all the Chingachgooks and Queequegs whose "otherness" defines white America. Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self is a natural extension of Fiedler's concern with the "other." Only now he confronts not society's but nature's own outsiders. He would prefer a term less offensive than freaks, though he defends it against such euphemisms as mistakes of nature and phenomènes on the grounds that they "lack the resonance necessary to represent the sense of quasi-religious awe which we experience first and most strongly as children: face to face with...