Word: interview
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very political once I started running," Lu said in an interview earlier this year. "I based the campaign on the Taiwanese right to self-determination. Sometimes I even made crowds cry, reminding them of their history, how they had been invaded by the Portugese Spanish, Manchus, Japanese--all outsiders--and that it was much the same today. That the Kuomintang was not elected to rule us, that they were colonial rulers, too," she said...
...after graduation. These are fit objects for satire, but not when the satirists are the villains themselves--then the humor is only a device to distance these people from their own guilt. It is offensive to hear somebody yuk it up about working for Cravath, Swaine and then go interview with them the next day. Yukking it up about corporate fascism makes it a lot easier to live with yourself when you become a part...
...interview guidelines, though, can be contradictory. "We cannot ask someone applying for a teller's job whether they have ever been arrested," bemoans a senior hiring executive of one Manhattan bank. "We can ask if they have ever been convicted of the crimes of breach of trust or theft because they are considered relevant to the job. But we cannot ask about rape or murder convictions because you cannot show a relationship between those and the job qualifications." Larry Vickery, director of employment relations for General Motors, joked that affirmative action guidelines are so complex that a company "might...
...Well, I wouldn't be surprised," former First Lady Betty Ford said in response to a White House interview question about what she would do if her daughter confided she was having an affair. "I would certainly counsel and advise her on the subject." Lately, it appears, counsel and advice have been needed not by Betty and Gerald Ford's married daughter Susan, 22, but by their single third son Steven, 23, a blond, good-looking California college student and would-be actor. Young Ford has filed a petition in an Orange County court seeking to establish whether...
...like the child he is, he carefully avoids stepping on cracks to keep bad luck at bay. The doctor tells him to keep his weight off his injured leg, and like some solemn, obedient stork, he then and there lifts it off the floor. Or, submitting to a telephone interview, after the President has quoted him in a speech, he catches sight of a TV exercise class and begins aping the movements of the instructor?movements he repeats later when MacLaine tries to seduce him and he does not know what to do. His literalism simply explodes the metaphorical cliches...