Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eleven years as Washington bureau chief of the Times, Reston proved a shrewd man at spotting talent. He also instituted a practice, like a Supreme Court Justice's, of selecting young interns to "clerk" for a year; out of this group came the present bureau chief, Craig Whitney, as well as Times correspondents at the White House, the State Department and on Capitol Hill. In Reston they found a hard-working, long-hours boss, congenial colleague and fierce defender of his troops...
After Kellie was killed, Irene quit her job as a clerk at a computer software company and stormed the streets in search of the killer, barging into local dope houses with a fury born of grief. Then came a letter from a sympathetic inmate in the county jail who provided the names and addresses of the gang members involved. Irene waited three days before passing the tip on to police. She explains, "I wanted to kill him myself...
Martin Short plays clerk Jack Putter...
...rates (6.1% nationally in June) is no longer news. But it is not just those seeking engineers, accountants, computer systems analysts and other highly skilled workers who are having trouble finding help. Employers seeking to fill seasonal and entry-level jobs demanding no experience and little skill -- dishwasher, store clerk, hotel maid, gas-station attendant, farmhand, to name just a few -- are often having just as much difficulty or more...
...court then got down to business. For three hours a clerk spelled out the charges in daunting detail. They told of systematic safety violations, inept supervision and deliberate departures from plant operating rules in an effort to coax more electricity from the nuclear-fired generators. One account accused the defendants of failing to notify those living near the plant of high radiation until 36 hours after the accident. Murmurs rippled through the audience when the document charged Anatoly Dyatlov, 57, deputy chief engineer at the time of the accident, with sending four workers to check the reactor hours after...