Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cleanliness works in Singapore where it fails elsewhere because the government, and especially tough Socialist Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, cracks down on polluters with a vengeance. Strict laws are well understood in a compact city-state where the citizenry has a high literacy rate. But it is the sting of law-hitting Singaporeans in the pocketbook-that has been the most effective antipollution measure...
...Sting. A sizable amount of hustled money: at least...
...jobless. I suggest he take a typing and shorthand course and seek a job as a secretary. Female college graduates have been told for decades that the way to break into business is through secretarial work. And I can personally assure the young man in your story that the sting of humiliation deadens after the first five years with no promotion...
Executive Layoffs. Seasoned executives and high-paid technicians are feeling the sting of unemployment. The Labor Department reports that the number of jobless "professional and managerial" workers has climbed in the past year from 279,000 to 409,000. In many cities, voluntary job-placement centers have opened up to teach these men the skills they have forgotten: how to write a resume, how to look for a job, what to do while waiting...
...good after that song. He just ran out another side door, and that was it. He hadn't been on very long, but the kids didn't really know what to do except cry a little. Any sort of negative reaction would be nothing less than a personal sting for Bobby...