Word: clerkly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic development authority. Under its program, the 8.75% fixed-rate loan could be used for homes costing no more than $72,000. "At first I felt a little bitter to realize that we couldn't begin to live as nicely as our parents do," said Doreen, 27, an office clerk. But she and Hamann, a 41-year-old postal worker, now consider themselves lucky. "When you hear about all the young people today who can't afford any kind of home," Doreen Hamann says, "I guess we've got nothing to complain about...
Jeff Weber, 35, an ex-furniture salesman, ex-convenience store clerk, ex- satellite dish salesman, has spent his life chasing his dream: "An oddball business that will make me money, so I won't ever have to work for anyone," he says. The pursuit of that dream has often put Weber in conflict with his wife Mary, a barber at an old-fashioned men's barbershop...
Some of Bundy's relatives might not have been so "regular." The illegitimate son of a Philadelphia department-store clerk, Bundy claimed he spent his early years with a deranged grandfather who assaulted people, tormented animals and had an insatiable appetite for pornography. Bundy talked of being appalled after his first murder. "It was like being possessed by something so awful, so alien," he said. "But then the impulse to do it again would come back even stronger...
...program has boosted the company's performance, in part because managers have put their employees' new motivation to good use. Avis has also found that its customers support employee ownership, which the company touts in its ads. One TV spot shows a satisfied customer pointing to an Avis rental clerk and saying, "I know the owner...
When Martha Page went to work as a trainee for Chicago's Harris Trust, she soon learned that "all the women were required to type and the men were not." Recalls another former Harris employee, Fran Hurwitz, who worked 15 years as a clerk: "Harris was your basic boys' club." Both women left the bank during the mid-1970s, but last week they got a measure of satisfaction when Harris settled a twelve-year-old Government suit charging the bank with race and sex discrimination...