Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to want to be a door holder for a living. In third grade we had to sign up for weekly tasks, and mine was always the door holder. First I would hold the door open for all my shrieking eight-year-old classmates and then I would run as quickly as I could to get to the front of the line...and I would repeat the process all the way to the lunch room. It wasn't the most glamorous of jobs, but I liked...
...fourth grade we didn't have weekly tasks anymore. I could no longer serve as door holder, so I found a similar calling--as elevator operator. I got the idea on a visit to a London hotel over the summer. I don't know what constituted its tremendous appeal--the brass buttons, double breasted suit, or just the image of spending all day riding the elevator and getting to talk to many different kinds of people...
Everett has had a large hand in crafting Stanford's meal plan, which has received poor reviews from students. In a poll conducted last spring by Stanford's student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, the school's meal plan received an average grade of C+ from 216 students. Thirty-four students gave the plan a D and four more gave it an F, while only 14 awarded their meal system some kind...
...been Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Labor (the only woman ever to hold two Cabinet positions in different administrations), feel the need to begin an interview with a journalist riding in the back seat of a car by saying, "I was elected president of the third-grade bird club and in the seventh grade, I started the junior book club and made myself president"? And to say those words straight, without irony...
...weeks. I have been having fantasies about being able to get up early and leave the apartment for the bulk of the day. But now I know what I had left out of all of my childhood dreams about having a career and homemaking. Whereas in my fifth-grade mind, Career Woman perhaps had a valet to pick up after her, I am now facing the harsh reality that when I start work, I am still going to have all the housework to do in July and August, only with even less time to do what...