Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows where that teacher comes from and how she probably fits into the city's network of cronyism and nepotism, how her mother may hold a feather-bedded job in the School Department downtown, her husband on the Boston police force may swallow his pride and true opinions to protect black children, and how her brother-in-law might be assuring audiences in South Boston that he will never let those people take over our little city as he runs for the ninth congressional district seat (which, by an ironic districting fluke, contains parts of South Boston, Roxbury and suburban...
...University contract proposal also includes a new "health and safety" clause, which would protect workers from potentially hazardous job assignments, and what Balsam characterized as a "Miranda clause...
...knows where that teacher comes from and how she probably fits into the city's network of cronyism and nepotism, how her mother may hold a feather-bedded job in the School Department downtown, her husband on the Boston police force may swallow his pride and true opinions to protect black children, and how her brother-in-law might be assuring audiences in South Boston that he will never let those people take over our little city as he runs for the ninth congressional district seat (which, by an ironic districting fluke, contains parts of South Boston, Roxbury and suburban...
Wall, convinced that his company is now diversified enough to protect it against sudden shocks in any one segment of the economy, insists that his rush for major acquisitions is over. "What remains," he says, "is some fine adjustments-sell a bit here, buy a bit there." Wall manages to soften the hectic 16-hour-a-day pace of his business life by relaxing with his family, which he calls "my breathing space." Every weekend he, his wife Ann, his son Johan, 11, and his daughter Osa, 7, escape to the family's 600-acre farm at Starfors. Ironically...
...Naturally, the advice is always sound. Instead of taking a course in speed reading, Edwin suggests, read more selectively. Take breaks to change the tempo and ease the tension of work. Say no a lot, because "you cannot protect your priorities unless you learn to decline, tactfully but firmly, every request that does not contribute to your goal." One can fight procrastination, too, by (a) chopping up ominously large tasks into easily manageable small components; (b) listing the reasons for delay on one side of a piece of paper and the benefits from completing the job on the other...