I was appalled to see a panhandler named Baker Howard described as a "sharp-dressed solicitor of change" and to see his methods of traffic navigation characterized as "work habits".
Finally, one can argue that since the human care involved in taking care of children and elders creates a public good, it should clearly be characterized as work, and those who are caretakers, primarily women, should be fairly compensated for it by society or the state (Ferguson and Folbre 2000: Folbre 2000, Ferguson 2004).
Vocational interest and goal affordance ratings (having a positive social impact, family, and occupation status) for occupations characterized as working with people or things were assessed in 1848 students (42% female; 81% white non-Hispanic) majoring in biology (gender balanced), non-biology STEM (male-dominated), and female-dominated health fields.
The school served children from the surrounding neighborhoods, which could be characterized as working class and working poor.
This work can be characterized as, first, theoretical concept, specifically for the review of literature on practices in Lean/JIT implementation and second, developing a model for deployment of Lean strategy.
UrbanAmerica's development plan is ambitious for the village, whose residents the mayor characterized as largely African-American and Hispanic working families struggling with high taxes and aging infrastructure.
The tasks carried out by the workers were characterized as office work (administrative tasks) without special physical loads.
Jessica Scaperotti, a spokeswoman for the Bloomberg administration, hailed the collaboration by officials from the city's education and correction departments to revamp a school system she characterized as not working properly.
Civilian government employees are routinely characterized as selfishly working only to maintain their own jobs and benefits, and the government itself is reviled on a daily basis, as for example, when conservative leader Grover Norquist told NPR: "I don't want to abolish government.
O'Brien has taken a close look at "The Art of the Deal," and he told me that it might be best characterized as a "nonfiction work of fiction".
In some cases, that can be fairly characterized as "niche" legal work, but, in others, it might also be called exploitative".
