Word: supplement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson, who heads the University-wide ethics program, says he supports the use of a required ethics course as a supplement to general treatment of the topic in other classes...
...which means that some people are inaccurately labeled as dishonest. James Walls, co- founder and executive vice president of Stanton Corp. in Charlotte, N.C., which sells 1 million written honesty tests a year, admits that his questionnaires are only 88% reliable. Employers should use a written test only to supplement interviews and background checks, Walls points out. Critics of the tests contend that many managers are lazy when it comes to hiring. "They want quick answers to the question 'Will a person be honest?' " explains Jon Bauer, a law professor at the University of Connecticut. "Honesty tests have the look...
...growing resentment against CDWs created a marketing opportunity for credit-card firms, which concluded that such coverage would be so inexpensive that they could offer it free. (The credit-card coverage is typically supplement insurance, which pays damages if other policies cannot be tapped.) American Express began providing the coverage in November 1987 to its gold- and platinum-card holders. Last year MasterCard and Visa did the same for their premium customers, but they have not yet done so for regular cardholders...
Next year's student handbook will omit the existing policy, and a supplement to the book will be distributed to students when a final decision has been made...
...field, all national chains, are Health Management Resources, Medifast and Optifast (which directed Winfrey's loss). Their programs are similar. Patients are put on so-called VLCDs -- very-low-calorie diets -- requiring them to forsake solid food and drink five packets a day of flavored powdered-food supplement containing a total of 400 to 800 calories. Dieters visit the program's doctor and a behavior-modification class once a week to have their health monitored and learn new eating habits. The average weight losses are dramatic: 3 lbs. a week for women and 5 lbs. for men. The fasting phase...