Word: queueing
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When a psychiatric disorder makes its debut, patients and doctors join the ticket line first, but eventually the lawyers queue up too. That's when the trouble tends to start. For America's attorneys, who might be said to specialize already in Relational Disorders--in creating them and making them worse--the prospect of such a fuzzy diagnosis must look like a row of cherries on a slot machine. By clouding the notion of personal responsibility even as the classification opens up vast new realms of mutual and collective liability, RD, as it will inevitably be referred to on daytime...
...hiring queue, behind the horde of anxious college grads, are the high school students who lack either the money or the grades or the inclination for higher education. Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum points out that 1 in 10 teenagers lost a job during the recession. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration is trying to cut funding for federal job-training programs for young adults, even though independent studies have shown that for every dollar spent on programs for disadvantaged youth like Job Corps, society saves about $2 from increased productivity and lower costs related to crime and welfare. Jessica Collins...
...submit to its siren call, whole hours can go missing. I have a friend who recently found herself stuck on a cruise ship near Panama that didn't offer e-mail, so she chartered a helicopter to take her to the nearest Internet cafe. There was nothing in her queue but junk mail and other spam, but she thought the trip was worth...
...submit to its siren call, whole hours can go missing. I have a friend who recently found herself stuck on a cruise ship near Panama that didn't offer e-mail, so she chartered a helicopter to take her to the nearest Internet cafe. There was nothing in her queue but junk mail and other spam, but she thought the trip was worth...
...takes "Slow News Day" almost three times as long to cover the same emotional ground. Contrived plot points seem to be Watson's sticky wicket. The sudden sale of Katherine's hokey-sounding screenplay, forcing her to leave the paper, seems as unlikely as her not knowing the word "queue." "Dumped" likewise has some unbelievable circumstances, but they're at the service of a more ambitious statement so you forgive them. Among other things the book examines the importance of material objects in our lives - a smashed CD player becomes a key prop - while also working as a love story...