Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hire me because as a woman I'd be "attacked on the streets of Boston" and besides, I couldn't change a tire so UPI would beat me out for the story. This inspired me to take karate because I wanted to come back and break this man's desk in two after I changed his tires, but unfortunately he retired before I could get there and besides, I was lousy at karate...
...must trade at the | displayed quote price with no chance to adjust to whatever other firms are doing. The system simply assigns the transaction to the marketmaker with the highest bid or lowest offer at the time. Result: if a Merrill Lynch specialist happens to be away from his desk when a stock starts moving, a savvy bartender could swiftly pinch $250 from his hide for every quarter-point change in price. Without the automated system, Houtkin's clients would have to call brokers and have them place orders with a marketmaker. By the time all that was done...
Other people are simply in over their heads -- literally, in some cases. Clinton asked Arkansas chum Bruce Lindsey to oversee the appointments process and remain at his side on trips out of town. But Lindsey is so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of paper crossing his desk that he has resorted to a method of filing that consists of crisscrossing documents as they came in: one sideways, one straight, one sideways and so on. When one stack grew too tall, he started another. When he ran out of flat surfaces, he added to a previous stack. Soon the stacks collapsed...
...your pants. So how scared do you think Danny Rostenkowski is going to be?" Clinton tried to remedy the situation by putting Gore aide Roy Neel in charge of "day to day" operations four weeks ago, but he is a soft touch too -- and still lacks an office, a desk or a phone in the White House...
...COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...