Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of affidavits collected by the union, striking employees charged that lie-detector tests used by the company to screen job applicants required them to answer such questions as: What are your sex preferences? How often do you change your underwear? Have you ever done anything with your wife that could be considered immoral? Are you a homosexual? Are you a Communist? The union maintains that these questions are invasions of privacy. Says Union Business Manager David Sickler: "When you get through being grilled on that lie detector, you feel dirty...
...espionage establishments of the world to change business habits that antedate the recent unpleasantness between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. What has dropped off since the cold war cooled down is public interest in these matters. To be sure, James Bond continues to prosper on the movie screen, but only by becoming more outrageously campy each time out. His antagonists have become totally apolitical, more and more like those master criminals whose antecedents are to be found in turn-of-the-century pulp fiction. But the rest- as far as movies are concerned - is silence...
...than 107,500 of them this year, compared with only 20,000 seven years ago. In the retail field, 35% to 38% of job applicants failed the test. People seeking work with vending machine companies flunk at the staggering rate of 75%. The testing firm claims that companies that screen applicants will end up with only 13 potential thieves out of 100 new employees. Otherwise, it says, 40% would be likely to steal...
...FINE Dan Jenkins novel this movie is loosely based on, the prefix semi- attached to an adjective was a sort of redneck oi vey-- thus semi-tough meant very tough indeed. Novels rarely come to the screen with the exact story line of the printed book--Jenkins described his trials with the screenplay in a recent Sports Illustrated article--but director Michael Ritchie has loaded up the old story of two country boys (and one country girl) who come to the city and make good with New York cocktail party jokes, including a sometimes flat parody of Erhardt...
...list could go on, but one word sums it up: energy. In person and onscreen, Dreyfuss, short, gat-toothed and, until recently, distinctly chubby, generates enough electricity to light up a small town-Cleveland or Chicago, say. "He has an energy that just flies off the screen," says Neil Simon, who wrote The Goodbye Girl. "He doesn't fall into any of the usual acting categories. He's not a handsome-man type like Redford or a dramatic-actor type like Pacino or De Niro. Rick can do anything-and he is funnier than any of them...