Word: preferments
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...ever: at least 1.5 million adults now receiving aid will have to find work by 2002. The vibrant economy has already scooped up the top prospects, leaving many who may be burdened by drug addiction, physical abuse, too many children or too little education. Lots of these folks would prefer to be working. But the more cynical think they never will. "The scale of the challenges is so much grander than the scale of the remedies that one can't be euphoric," says former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who is less than thrilled with the reform legislation...
That purpose does not include the deliberate consumption of humans--another misconception spread by Jaws. Great whites, most experts believe, prefer high-fat prey because fat is packed with calories. People are too scrawny, which is why, after taking a first bite--perhaps because a human, especially one wearing a black wet suit and flippers, looks something like a seal--a great white will usually turn up its nose at whatever remains. Most other shark attacks are probably also cases of mistaken identity: a swimmer's flapping feet and hands may look like the movements of a fish darting through...
...life in Little Rock that it's not difficult to imagine what his visits to the Jade Goober must have been like. In my mind, the trip from his office to the Goober would have been on foot, a poll by Dick Morris having shown that most Arkansans prefer that the Governor walk rather than ride to lunch and, if possible, not via a route that would take him by McDonald's for hors d'oeuvres...
...close friend of Sara Lee Corp. CEO and Democratic fund-raising bigwig JOHN BRYAN. Clinton, long in favor of the provision, phoned Senate majority leader TRENT LOTT late last week to make clear his support for the bill. At the moment, most of the honorable gentlemen seem to prefer Hanes...
...changing its position on wilderness preservation. But the minority of N.A.A.C.P. members who believe that integration is undesirable or--in cities led by black elected officials--unnecessary will be casting a longer shadow than usual as the organization meets for its annual convention in Pittsburgh this week. N.A.A.C.P. elders prefer to see the airing of these ideas as a therapeutic exercise. "What we're trying to do is give these people respect, let them voice out their frustration, and then we state our position and move on," says Melvin ("Skip") Alston, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s North Carolina state conference...