Word: clerked
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...been a long night - at 7:30 a.m., when I was on break, Larry King was already in the lobby demanding "just one New York Times" from a scared desk clerk. Time...
Sharpe had come to the motel asking to rent a room, but the clerk referred him to a nearby motel because there was no space available...
Then tales of financial abuse began to roll in. A state audit found a clerk in the department of children's services had been taking kickbacks to allow ineligible kids into a state-financed day-care program for abused and neglected children. Other audits found four centers that had misused thousands of dollars in state funds and another that had received federal dollars for 8,184 breakfasts and 5,208 snacks that children never received. (One center is appealing its audit.) Investigations by the Memphis Commercial Appeal found still other day-care centers paying their executives six figures while paying...
...tracks how many Americans get new names. But a clerk estimates that judges in our county grant several hundred name changes a year--in cases of divorce, marriage, adoption, immigration, even a sex-change operation. Emily had no legal basis for shedding her old identity, but she had a host of emotional needs. Did I mention that the i showed up after our third child was born? Here's my theory: when we wouldn't let Emily name the baby boy Ringo, she decided to rename herself...
...avoid parking any critically psychotic patients in jail, Gwen Turner, a retired chancery clerk and advocate for the mentally ill, proposed five years ago turning an empty downtown building into a crisis center where Natchez Regional Hospital doctors could volunteer to treat these patients. (The regional hospital won't accept them.) But she found little interest in her proposal...