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...have happened when, faced with allegations of employee drug use in the office, human resource professionals shunned testing and instead organized a tribunal during which office employees were led, one-by-one, into a room and presented with a prisoner's dilemma: Squeal on your co-workers, or lose your...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Human Resource Trouble | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...album's first track, I Feel You, opens with a squeal of feedback. "You take me home/ To glory's throne," sings vocalist David Gahan. This time Gahan sounds as if he actually means the words. His vocals are rawer, more human; there's even a hint of optimism, a splash of erotic spirituality. The instrumentation goes beyond the usual techno-pop electronics; there are slashing guitars, not just impersonal synthesizers. One track, Judas, has bagpipes; the confessional One Caress features a 20-piece orchestra, including violins; and the almost cathartic Get Right with Me comes complete with a gospel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion a La Mode | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...Amos 'n' Andy," says creator Hal Kanter. Yet the show's sunny treatment of race relations was as far from reality as anything on the tube. (An encounter between Julia's little boy and a white playmate: "Your mother's colored!" "Of course. I'm colored too." "You are?" Squeal of laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many Shades Of Black | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...liability risk; most want to switch to general corporations. The plan needs approval from all 50 states. The group's members also voted overwhelmingly to maintain a long-standing policy that bars members from volunteering confidential client information to government agencies, making it even more unlikely that accountants will squeal on clients unless subpoenaed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accounting Who's Counting? | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...turned state's witness after pleading guilty in 1987 to murder, racketeering and conspiring with a Philadelphia councilman to extort $1 million from a real estate developer. Since then you've testified in 11 trials that have brought 52 convictions. Why did you squeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crow Turns Stool Pigeon: NICHOLAS CARAMANDI | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

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