Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like many Harvard seniors, I have no idea where I am going to be next year, or what I will do when I get there. What I do know is that I don't want to be here, for one very simple reason...
...this reason, a major urban radio station is Boston is desperately needed as a cultural institution, as a place where Boston's highly insulated white majority could meet the city's largely ignored black minority...
KEEPING IN TOUCH. For students like high school junior Samantha Symonds of Pottstown, Pa., the simple ease of getting assignments online and turning them in via e-mail is reason enough to take homework digital. Samantha, a competitive fencer, travels far from her school for tournaments and boots up to stay on top of her classwork. Logging on in hotel rooms and airports, she gets copies of course lectures and lab assignments, e-mails her teacher when she's stumped and even takes tests online. "You can actually focus on what you need to know rather than tracking down someone...
Even without such incentives, however, some firms have been standouts in aiding the disabled to do their jobs. Marriott International of Bethesda, Md., has long been recognized for its efforts. One compelling reason for the company's stance: chairman J.W. Marriott Jr.'s son Steve, a Marriott vice president of employment marketing, is hearing and sight impaired. But Marriott executives emphasize that the policy has deeper roots than that. "Working with all people has just become a part of our corporate culture," says Brendan Keegan, Marriott's executive vice president of human resources. "We have found that people with disabilities...
...time. "If I were anyone affiliated with running an HMO, I'd be worried about this development," says Gorman. For the moment, the Aetna verdict is an aberration in the sense that most people cannot sue their HMOs for large, punishing damage claims -- federal law forbids it. "The only reason the surviving spouse could sue in this case was because of an exception for government employees," says Gorman. It's an exception many people may feel needs some explaining by Congress as public pressure grows for amputating corporate bureaucrats from medical practice...