Word: chores
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...cheating have to pay about $3.50 a page for a copy of an existing essay, $10 a page for a custom-tailored work. Some essays were originally honest term papers that students later sold to the ghostwriters. Others are fabricated by graduate students who are well paid for the chore. One Manhattan author, who calls himself "Casper the Friendly Ghostwriter," demands a premium for C papers-because, he claims, they are harder to write than A essays...
...three years. He now lives with his wife and three daughters in Manhattan. He often jogs four miles in Central Park before he leaves for the office at 5 a.m., and recently he has taken on the added job of writing and delivering the news on Today, a chore that used to be handled by Floyd Kalber. Brokaw's drawback rather is something he cannot do much about: his frosty demeanor. It is a failing that he readily admits -and dismisses. Says he: "When you're on for two hours five days a week...
...Stamford, Conn., and Palo Alto, Calif., two secretaries of the Xerox Corp. use electronic mail computers to swap and file memos from their bosses, thereby reducing to a minute's time a chore that previously would have involved typing letters and sending them coast to coast...
Today the Brothers cook for themselves--a chore to some, an art to others. Josh is the James Beard of the House. He even looks like him, only with hair. Josh knows he's good. He enters his spacious culinary atelier by 2 p.m. on the days he is creating, and he does not emerge with his weary assistants until well after his masterpieces have been consumed and eulogized. Maybe someday, Josh hopes, the Brothers will name a dish in his honor, as they do for all legendary House cooks...
...Crimson booters peppered the B.C. goaltenders with 29 shots, while Crimson netminders Ann Diamond and Dana Warren, sharing the chore as they have for much of the season, had to contend with only nine B.C. drives...