Word: verbalizations
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...protect them from abuse. Says Rosalinda Baldoz, administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, "We are tired of hearing stories of Filipino maids being attacked in the face with a hot flat iron by her employer." Across Asia, rampant reports of imported workers suffering inhumane treatment include inadequate wages, verbal and physical assault, even rape. Last month, leaders of the Association of South-East Asian Nations, meeting in the Philippines, also took similar steps to regulate and aid the region's millions of migrant workers. According to Manila's argument, workers accredited with specific skills would not be vulnerable...
...Ryan Shedd West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S. Michael Elliott's references to the eternal human truths contained in the classics capture the enriching element of ancient literature. The ancient heroes were no muscle-bound war machines, as they are unfortunately depicted in computer games. Their politicians were deft verbal strategists, as the politics of the time required them to be. Letters home from Roman soldiers, preserved by the dry sands of Egypt, reveal sentimental and faithful sons urging their fathers to write back after experiencing the fury and terror of battle, setting fire to other nations' houses and selling entire families...
...better job than someone else, which is absolutely not true, and in fact the opposite may be true,” Reeves added. Kelley again drew fire after requesting more information on the difference between speed bumps and speed humps. “You could find this out verbally; why have someone sit down for two to three days to write a report that may not meet your needs? Why not have a verbal exchange?” Davis asked. In an interview, Decker said she thought “people are just frustrated trying to understand Councillor Kelley...
...face of Amelia Bedelia’s repeated blunders is pure fictive fantasy: No real-life employer would stand to have their house “dusted” with extra helpings of powder over every available surface. Amelia Bedelia keeps her job by virtue of a valuable non-verbal skill: world-champion baking prowess, which she shrewdly parlays into Mr. and Mrs. Rogers’s favorite dessert, lemon meringue pie. When she’s in trouble, she knows on her own exactly what to do— pop a pastry into the oven—but this...
...Russian immigrants were 'high-grade defectives' or morons. "Goddard never wrote any such thing. What he wrote was that of those immigrants screened at Ellis Island who were suspected of being "feeble-minded" on the basis of casual observations, a majority scored in the "feeble-minded" range on certain verbal and performance tests. They were never claimed by Goddard to be a representative sample of any national group of immigrants ever tested at Ellis Island...