Word: safely
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...will doubtless become widespread. At least in California, not only can employers be sued for failing to mention episodes of misconduct, but they also face the possibility of being sued by ex-employees who claim candor in reference letters prevented them from landing new jobs. For employers, the only safe route seems to be: don?t answer your mail...
Bill Cosby, in his initial public response to the murder of his son, seemed aware of this. The man who single-handedly updated the middle-class patriarch as a TV icon, who made the small screen safe again for displays of frank morality, loving discipline and gruff exasperation, may have sensed straightaway that the death in his family made him a kind of reluctant griever in chief. So instead of asking for sympathy, he offered it--to families who'd experienced similar tragedies. Cosby seemed more concerned about his audience's pain than his own. Considering the permeable borders between...
...week before Kim Messer and Jeanie Mentavlos announced that they were leaving the Citadel because they no longer felt safe on campus, interim Citadel president R. Clifton Poole was planning to send a letter to alumni telling them how well the assimilation of females into the 154-year-old South Carolina military college had gone. "We were feeling really good, really proud," says Poole. "Now I have to send a letter to a lot of angry alumni explaining what went wrong...
...Kansas City high and junior high schools, including Paseo, a $34 million state-of-the-art magnet school that serves a 70% minority student body. "I was outraged," says Shepherd. "I respect their wanting to protect their drivers. But how could it be unsafe one day but safe enough for them when it came to that contract? We didn't move the school." Her reaction was echoed by the Kansas City school board's finance and audit committee, which last week recommended canceling the Pizza Hut contract and summoned a company official to the school board's meeting...
...Pizza Hut's Dallas headquarters, who accused school officials of "reacting to emotion." He says the company works out its "trade area restrictions" based on crime statistics. Nevertheless, he says, two Pizza Hut drivers have been killed on the job in the past six weeks--both in presumably safe areas. One murder occurred in Sacramento, California, the other in Salt Lake City, Utah. Regularly scheduled deliveries of the sort Pizza Hut bid on in Kansas City, Doughty claims, can be done safely with more than one driver--something, he says, the firm doesn't do for spot orders...