Word: clay
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...listed.) A fake résumé destroyed Marilee Jones' career. But she feared, with some reason, that her true résumé might have torpedoed it from the beginning. And it's hard to believe that someone who "has done a great job" (in the words of M.I.T.'s chancellor, Phillip Clay) would have been terminated over ancient lies on any other subject...
Subha Patel, Kaiser's counterpart at IFF, has journeyed to Kenya and Guangzhou in China. In Southern India, she drew smell samples from cardamom flowers, local tea and fresh red clay. In lieu of bringing back buckets of samples or dead flowers, Patel records her findings chemically. Her primary tool, a solid-phase microextractor, is a $100 penlike device that can record the specific molecules present around anything with a smell. Fennel, cucumber, melon, tomato leaf, black plum and hydroponic celery might soon start to show up as notes in consumer fragrances. Scent notes of Japanese ginger, Indian mango, lantana...
...velvet jacket, had a Louise Brooks vibe - a sharp contrast to the beehive hairdos and animal-print outfits of Lips' other waitresses, who looked to have come straight from the set of a John Waters movie. Ginger and Yvonne's cutting back-and-forth of mostly unprintable comments about Clay Aiken, Michael Jackson, and Weight Watchers spared neither each other nor the bingo players. When the first winner went to the front of the room to get her card verified and forgot to bring her card, Ginger shot out: "Good thing she's cute. She's not that smart...
...Island, Boston University, Brown and MIT from contention. Though eight schools remained, it had already become clear that the regatta would end up being a four-team competition.“As the regatta progressed, it was apparent that four teams were equally good,” senior skipper Clay Johnson said.Another round robin eliminated Tufts, the Coast Guard Academy, Roger Williams and Connecticut College, leaving four teams—Yale, Dartmouth, Boston College and Harvard—to battle for just three nationals spots.“It was very touch and go as to who was going...
Jones’ first, entry-level job in the admissions office did not require a college degree, Clay said, and she apparently advanced to higher positions without a review of her resume...