Word: telling
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Salary usually isn't discussed untilsubsequent interviews. But if the interviewer asksyou what you expect to earn, you can respond byasking what the salary range is for that job. Thecompany usually has a certain number of jobs to befilled in definite salary brackets. An OCScounselor can tell you the average starting salaryfor such a position. You may also wish to lookover the Salary Survey, published by the CollegePlacement Council, or look in the U.S. Governmentpublications entitled The Occupational Outlook forCollege Graduates. Both are in the OCS library...
Such legislation did carry certain political advantages, as even legislators had to admit. "Just to grow hair on your chest here on the Senate floor so you can...tell everybody how tough you are on drugs is no solution." said Senator Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.) But Bumpers ended up supporting the anti-drug legislation, not because he was a hypocrite but because he realized that the new bill, despite its political overtones, was a step in the right direction...
Instead of passing this timely piece of legislation, should Congressmen instead go back to their districts and tell voters, "Sorry, we decided not to try to crack down on drug abuse because we thought it would prejudice you in our favor. In the meantime, just...
While reporters at the Times are eagerly snapping up early copies of Fit to Print, Rosenthal, who has received a six-figure advance to write his memoirs, says he has not read it: "From what I can tell, it's like walking into a mess in the street. You step in it; you try to wipe it from your foot." Ironically, some of the best material in the book comes from Rosenthal, who at first refused to talk to Goulden but ultimately spent 20 hours with the author. "If you call Abe Rosenthal anything," he told a mystified Goulden...
...have been colonized or occupied by a Western power, and even if this reflects nothing but the culture's gift for co-opting foreign influences, it also suggests its facility for remaining just outside the foreigner's reach. Thailand's charms are so real that it is hard to tell the extent to which they are being exploited; and Thailand's magic is so supple that its source remains a secret known only to itself -- and, perhaps, the gods who dreamed...