Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever notice how retail clerks always seem to be on their coffee break when you have a request? Not the proprietor of a compact-disc outlet that opened last week in Minneapolis. The clerk behind the counter boasts an encyclopedic knowledge of the 5,400-item inventory, and never leaves the store. The attendant can't, because it is a robot -- the first to run its own shop...
...same right as surviving spouses to take over rent-stabilized apartments upon the death of their partners. In San Francisco voters last Tuesday narrowly rejected -- after vocal opposition from the city's archbishop and other religious leaders -- a proposal entitling gay couples to register their relationships with the county clerk. In Washington and Los Angeles, task forces have been set up to investigate whether denying gay couples the benefits enjoyed by married people is a form of discrimination. It is all part of a growing national debate over whether gay couples should be allowed to declare themselves "domestic partners...
...From a politician's point of view, you certainly couldn't have asked for a nicer day," said City Clerk Joseph E. Connarton...
Newton Mayor Theodore Mann, who has served for 18 years, defeated 17-year City Council member Richard McGrath 60 percent to 40 percent, according to the city clerk...
...woman running for town clerk is dynamic, but she ran only after losing the nomination for judge. She's a good campaigner, but her political ambitions are elsewhere. And the woman running for judge is a disagreeable do-nothing, a poor excuse for a candidate...