Word: clerked
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...think tank. Known as a Putin supporter, an advocate of the state-sponsored dismantling of oil titan Yukos, and a reliable bellwether for the nationalist wing of the Moscow élite, Belkovsky turned on Putin last week. In an interview with TIME, he dismissed the President as "a minor clerk" who ended up running Russia "by a stroke of luck." He claimed that "disappointment and irritation" with Putin are growing in the middle ranks of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB and a crucial Putin power base. And he predicted that opposition will continue to grow...
...billion-a-year business ... The meaning of the tasks performed by white-collar employees and executives often becomes lost in the complexities of giant corporations; it is hard for them to see what they are really accomplishing. But in his home workshop, anyone from president down to file clerk can take satisfaction from the fine table, chair or cabinet taking shape under his own hands--and bulge with pride again as he shows them off to friends. --TIME...
...good painted on a drumhead," he explains.) Like several of his brothers, he caddied at the Indian Hill Golf Club to help pay his Catholic-school tuition. (Murray's father Edward, a lumber salesman, died in 1967 at age 46 of complications from diabetes; his mother Lucille, a mailroom clerk, died in 1988 of cancer.) It was while caddying that Murray developed his ferocious sense of justice. "As a poor kid carrying a rich guy's bag," says Murray, "you're not supposed to speak unless spoken to--and some people wouldn't even look at you. Then there were...
...sold at their neighborhood mall would be the ideal gift; she could redeem them at any store in the shopping center. But nearly six months later, when Arlene tried to buy a $20.50 blouse with $2.50 in cash plus a gift card with $18 of unspent credit, the sales clerk said it couldn't be done, citing a fine-print rule on the back of the card prohibiting purchases for more than the available balance. Norman eventually had to pay cash for the blouse...
...Circuit Court of Appeals by Bush, Roberts, 49, was once a Rehnquist clerk and later, in private practice, argued many cases before the Supreme Court. A highly regarded judge, he could have bipartisan support...