Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What if someone gets the Victoria's Secret catalog at work? "If someone makes a comment about that, you get rid of it," she says. Parallax, her company based in Santa Monica, Calif., teaches that one complaint is enough to change office policy--and such advice is becoming the standard in business schools and financial newspapers. A U.S. Department of Labor brochure on sexual harassment even advises that those who hear "sexual jokes or... sexual things that you didn't like" could be victims. Several states offer equally broad, subjective definitions...
That's one of the reasons why Tarentino could get away with using the "n"-word 80-plus times in "Jackie Brown," because it was always uttered by a black man. Is this some kind of a double standard? Not really. Black people can "get away" with calling each other niggers because no matter how high up on the social ladder a black person can get, he can never be high enough to be white. In a very real sense, he will never be any better than the person he calls a nigger...
...many and such a high proportion (25 percent) of Early Action candidates admitted? As we say clearly in our admissions literature, it is not because we have policy of lowered admissions standards for Early Action candidates. Early Action candidates present, on average, considerably stronger admissions credentials than regular action candidates. They are admitted because the Admissions Committee, with many years of collective experience to draw upon, is convinced that each is 100 percent certain to be admitted when compared to the full slate of candidates who will be considered in the spring. Yearly variations in the rigor of the admissions...
DIED. FRED FRIENDLY, 82, broadcasting pioneer and former president of CBS News whose early documentary work set the standard for journalistic integrity; in New York. Friendly quit CBS when the network ran a repeat of I Love Lucy while NBC broadcast a live Senate hearing on Vietnam. (See EULOGY below...
...They're told either scramble their dirty pictures or put them on when there are fewer kids in the audience," explains BRUCE TAYLOR, president of the National Law Center for Children and Families. The Playboy Channel has sued the government, arguing that the rule applies "the exact same indecency standard" the Justices said violated the First Amendment when they rejected it for cyberspace...