Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They work for different parts of the University and they live in cities and towns throughout the Boston area, in other parts of the country and in other parts of the world. In any given week, there are as many as 1,200-1,500 individuals working in short-term positions on the University's casual payroll. Who is hired for these positions and how much they are paid is at the discretion of local managers...
...live in a time when it is about short term thinking," Lubbers said. "This is a real handicap and a challenge for a leader who needs to give hope and perspective for the future...
...gleeful exclamation of 65-year-old Desiree, a recent immigrant from Haiti, when she finally comprehended the term. Native English speakers take the words "broom," "sweep," "dishes" and "hammer" for granted. These brand new vocabulary words and phrases will be of critical importance to newly arrived low-income Americans, as they struggle to understand help-wanted advertisements, American shopping malls and even soap operas...
...have all heard the self-important Harvard talk of "effecting change to a greater scale." This is a usual response I have heard when students dismiss teaching as a short-term or long-term career possibility. Socially conscious students who nurture idealistic ambitions of saving the world aspire to "large scale change" through careers in law, medicine, government, educational policy or academia...
Lynn Martin, former U.S. secretary of labor (1991-1993), noted that most of the leaders at the discussion had held their offices only one term...