Word: hourlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preview on [channel] 38. My favorite is The Rock. He's the people's champion, they say. But my daughter likes Stone Cold Steve Austin. I don't know why she likes him. He's so rude on the TV." On the days Billy works he spends his last hour at home relaxing, preparing for a long night...
...despite appearances, this is a workplace, and after a quick tour of the halls it's time to get down to business. I immediately learn where these investment bankers spend their 80-hour weeks: in cubicles, in front of a computer monitor. This is an Internet economy, and Shemmer conducts the vast majority of his business online--trading e-mail messages, surfing the Web, with an occasional phone call to lighten the glow of the screen. Shemmer writes a report the way Harvard students write papers, stopping every 10 minutes to check his e-mail. He estimates that he gets...
...like 80-20." Once he identifies a likely prospect, Shemmer places a call to the CEO for more information, then drafts a one-page summary of the company for his client, a time-consuming prospect. "It takes a while," he says. "You have to dissect a company in an hour so the buyer can figure out, 'Do we want this...
...expert sculptors of Brookline Ice, Fontecchio and his partner Alfred J. Georgs can transform a 300-pound block into an intricate carving in under an hour...
...When I first started," he continues suddenly, "it took me eight hours to carve a simple fish. Now I could do one that is three times better in about an hour...