Word: processers
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Your article "Handicaps in the Hiring" [March 3] demonstrated many of the problems that are encountered during the interviewing process. However, the author was wrong in assuming that "about the only totally safe question to ask a potential employee is 'Would you like a cup of coffee?' " You see, in the Mormon-dominated state of Utah, where drinking coffee is a sin, the positive response by an interviewee to such a question would most probably preclude employment...
...Camp David peace process, and for the slow-paced negotiations between Egypt and Israel on Palestinian autonomy, the ides of March were something to beware. The Israeli government last week announced that it would expropriate 1,000 acres of land-68% of it owned by Arabs-in East Jerusalem. The expropriation plan calls for the construction of 10,000 housing units for Jewish citizens on the confiscated land. The residential complex will link two existing settlements-Neve Yaacov and French Hill-and thus complete the encirclement of predominantly Arab East Jerusalem with Jewish suburbs. At least in spirit, the seizure...
Washington was quick and unequivocal in its condemnation of the expropriation. "This is not an action destined to improve the peace process," said State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III. "The status of any and all territory should be defined by negotiations...
...Israelis also did little to help the peace process with the selection of their new Foreign Minister to succeed Moshe Dayan, who resigned in October. The choice: Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Shamir, 64, a leader of the extremist Stern Gang during the struggle for Israel's independence, and a very determined hawk. Shamir abstained from voting on both the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty when they came before the Knesset for approval. One opposition spokesman charged in parliament that it was "the height of absurdity" to name a foreign policy spokesman opposed to his government...
...suspect wine again is French, or is purported to be. But the principal culprits are Dutchmen who, in two separate operations, are believed to have passed off several million bottles of cheap wine as the product of well-known French vineyards, earning as much as $10 million in the process. American importers have been a favorite target for shipments of bogus Pouilly-Fuissé, a white wine from the Burgundy region that has soared both in popularity and price in the U.S. According to investigators in The Netherlands, Americans drank between 300,000 and 500,000 bottles of the phony...