Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usually self-insured firms, prefer to use the stick. Employees at E.A. Miller, a meat-packing unit of ConAgra in Hyrum, Utah, are charged extra for medical coverage if they smoke. They must also wear seat belts and, if they are pregnant, attend childbirth classes, or they could lose their insurance. It seems to work. Since the plan's inception in 1990, no employee has been killed in a car accident, and the number of premature births has dropped from three in a two-year period to just two in the past five years. "We want to teach employees...
...aren't we regular folks lucky that the Jesus Seminar pundits have devised their own criteria for determining the reliability of the New Testament? Out of the blue, they assume that shorter, punchier passages are more likely to be accurate, and they prefer parables without explicit applications and impose other arbitrary criteria to the Scriptures. It is not difficult to discredit even the best-attested works of antiquity, given the unscholarly prerogative of choosing the cut according to one's own biases. Liberal theologians since the turn of the century (and before) have attempted to refute parts of the Bible...
...better investment than, say, Exxon or IBM. And despite the staggering price rises, only recently have consumers started to change their behavior and buy something else. As he pondered Post's move, one rival industry executive put it this way, "People are predisposed to buy the cereals they prefer. Why should we do anything...
Working together does not mean having a bitter attitude towards those students who prefer not to get involved in the political debates and battles of their countries. Perhaps if Santini's agenda was not provoked by a readiness to "combat" and teaching "the man not to mess with us" but instead with an eagerness and a willingness to hear what other Puerto Ricans on campus are feeling, or what they have on their agendas than maybe we could be more "prepared to make history...
Many parents, understandably, prefer to assume that their child is exceptional until proved otherwise. If little Susie picks up a violin, she's a sure candidate for Suzuki; if she gets the part of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the local production of The Nutcracker, make sure she watches her weight. Wetter says he sees an extraordinary number of bright young patients whose parents are paying for tutors in addition to private-school tuition to make sure their kids keep up in class--or get ahead. "We've lost the concept of well-rounded children because we're so focused...