Word: tempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than in sartorial brilliance. Says he: "When I lived in the Midwest, I bought my clothes at Sears, but I did buy a Lauren shirt five years ago at a factory outlet in Connecticut. Only now is the shirt beginning to fray." Perhaps this exposure to current fashion will tempt him to consider replacing it before too many more years...
Despite those benefits, computer supervision has a dark side that is becoming a major issue for workers, labor leaders and scholars. The ability to record so much information about an employee could tempt managers to snoop too deeply into personal behavior and invade privacy. Just as ominously, the pressure of being monitored every second is already producing undesirable side effects in some workers, notably high stress and low morale. Declares Karen Nussbaum, director of 9 to 5, a national group of workingwomen: "The potential for corporate abuse is staggering. It puts you under the gun in the short...
Though you may have come to Cambridge resigned to spend the summer studying unthrilling subjects like accounting or the British novel, a stray glance or two may tempt you towards a more ecletic offering. After all, some mundane classes are offered year after year, but this may be your only chance to take, say, Engl S-193, "New York and the American Imagination...
...should be "radical changes" in Chile's government. Such changes are unlikely until at least 1989, when Pinochet's 1980 constitution calls for the four-man military junta to choose a candidate for President, subject to public approval in a yes-or-no referendum. The current unrest, however, may tempt Pinochet to scrap even that small step toward democracy. "In the next weeks," predicts Orlando Saenz, a Chilean industrialist, "Pinochet could well declare that present conditions make 1989 impossible." If that happens, the tense standoff between the government and the opposition may turn ugly...
...week it had dropped to about $12. Because oil price declines can take 40 to 90 days to work their way through to the pump, the impact of lower-cost crude is just beginning to be felt. Some experts are predicting 60 cents gas for the summer, which may tempt a lot of people to polish up the old T-Bird and have some...