Word: standards
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...cent of Salisbury's employed blacks are below the $133-per-month poverty level. The remaining mass of unemployed blacks live under even more marginal conditions, populating an arid area euphemistically described as "African Tribal Lands" comprising 40 per cent of the country. Still, the living standard of even the unemployed is higher than the unemployed in many other parts of Africa, including neighboring Botswana and Mozambique...
...employee's responsibility to remain healthy" (Harvard Independent, Nov. 13-19, 1975). The following statement by Radcliffe manager Sweeney appears on the warning slip she issued to a woman worker who had been sick: "I must point out that it is an employee's responsibility to maintain a standard of health which will enable her to report to work regularly as scheduled. Failure to do so may result in further disciplinary action, including suspension or termination." One woman who received such a warning slip reported to work on the very day she received the slip, even though she was sick...
Fish said he is pleased with the perfomance of the freshmen on both squads. "Kevin Shaw, number four on varsity, brought a high standard of playing ability and match experience to the team," Fish said...
...Miller ruling, the court declared that local juries would have to decide what offended standards of taste and convict if they found that a work, "taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value"?a much easier standard, so it seemed, for prosecutors...
Whether made by the old or new pornographers, most hardcore movies have kept close to the single proven formula: endless scenes of copulation, strung along in an unnoticeable plot. But now porn-film makers are breaking away from the standard formula. One way consists of cutting out some of the crasser scenes and trying for the lyrical, romantic porn presumably favored by women. Example: the 1974 French import Emmanuelle, with welling music and tugging at heartstrings, started a newly profitable trend toward sleeker soft-core scenes. Another approach provides new jolts for jaded fans. One current porn film, Sweet Movie...