Word: seldom
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...organization itself has operated with a high level of secrecy, if not mystery, that has inflamed critics. The IMF seldom discloses the details of its agreements with borrower countries. And IMF officials, in their public statements, speak in a language that seems purposefully oblique, out of a professed fear of rattling the financial markets. But lately the agency has tried to become more transparent in its actions. In the recent Thai bailout, under IMF pressure the Thai's took the unusual step of releasing a detailed, multipage summary of the loan agreement...
...Seldom are labor conflicts settled at the breakfast table, but the lives and welfare of many workers depend on the grapes we choose or do not choose to eat. Harvard's decision to serve grapes again in undergraduate dining halls in spite of the United Farm Workers (UFW) boycott is important...
...second boycot. Nearly one-third of the workforce is under 16 years old, and many of these workers paid less than minimum wage. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that the average income of a farm worker's family is less than $5,000 a year. Farmworkers are seldom supplied with toilets or even drinking water while working...
...MOINES: Seldom have emotions been more mixed. On the one hand, there were the babies, seven tiny bundles that were truly a miracle of life and science. On the other hand, here were seven babies, undersized, one critical, the rest in serious condition in an Iowa hospital, with a difficult future ahead. At the heart of it was Bobbi McCaughey, who gave birth to septuplets Wednesday after more than 40 specialists spent six minutes to deliver the babies by C-section. Only the second known time that a woman has born seven live babies raised new questions about the advisability...
...Seldom does a film with a solid premise misfire completely. Even more seldom does one begin with a substantial story, veer completely away from it, and then subsequently turn into a disaster. Unfortunately, I Love You, I Love You Not becomes just such a debacle that not only confuses but also angers its audience...