Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jungle out there. Orders are pouring in faster than your company can fill them. You're losing sales every day because you can't find new workers to step up output. You're not even sure you can hold on to your present employees; competitors are dangling offers in front of them. You need help--talented, experienced help, if possible--fast. So, boss, what...
...that rate is speeding up again. The resulting squeeze on payrolls is not disastrous but may soon be enough to prompt employers to lay off workers as their profit margins narrow. That is a major reason why most board members expect unemployment to rise at least slightly from its present remarkable lows...
...spluttered back, "Would you want your daughter...!? That creep...!" And the Permissivists chorused in return, "They all did it! Look at Roosevelt! Kennedy, for God's sake! Johnson!" and so on, pointlessly, grimly, until the dinner was more or less ruined. By the time we arrived at dessert, all present realized that an ugly weather system had moved in, something like the greenish air before a tornado...
...Mainland China will find it very difficult to maintain the nationalism and hegemonism that it relies on now for its rule. Society on the mainland will become more pluralized. In that case, cross-strait relations will grow closer than at present...
...perverse" impact of the economic sanctions against Iraq. But Etchegaray -- who is the Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations -- was also laying groundwork for a papal visit. The thinking is that the pope will visit biblical sites, including Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, in present-day Iraq. Other tantalizing events for 2000, in the talking stage, are a summit meeting for world Christian leaders and an interreligious gathering, Jews and Muslims included, on Egypt's Mount Sinai...