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...added essay, Avoiding Sexist Language, offers some useful gender-neutral suggestions (firefighter instead of fireman). Yet browsers will find as well the stamp of acceptance on the dreadful herstory ("an alternative form to distinguish or emphasize the particular experience of women"); the execrable womyn ("alternative spelling to avoid the suggestion of sexism perceived in the sequence m-e-n"); and the absurd wait-person (waiter or waitress) and waitron ("a person of either sex who waits on tables"). Future lexicons, perhaps, will give us waitoid (a person of indeterminate sex who waits on tables...
Take your $20 gas bill. Paying two months at once, $40 instead of $20, ties . up an extra $20 but saves a stamp -- 29 cents -- and the trouble of having to pay the bill next month. Twenty-nine cents is a "return" of 1.45% on a one- month "investment" of $20, or nearly 19% a year compounded...
...personal stamp on the deanship," says Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Phyllis Keller. "He is a collegial person--people like him and respect...
...personal stamp on the deanship," Keller says. "He is a collegial person--people like him and respect...
...large sympathy vote. An alternative theory is that Indians, aghast at the party's desperate flounderings, will opt in large numbers for the better-organized but politically ominous B.J.P. The outcome in either case would be an ironic footnote to the history of an illustrious clan: its latter-day stamp on public life would have come from an act of great violence...