Word: interviews
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...Zachery showed up for a recent interview at one of Kansas City's barbecue temples carrying a large box full of medical records. But no amount of documentation could resolve his bewilderment over what was happening to him. "You play by the rules, then when you need them, the rules change," he said. "I had an occupation. I was at the top of the food chain, keeping my head above water. Then I happened to show up for work on my birthday - and everything since then has just spiraled...
...free spirit grew into a divorced mom of two daughters. Stevens decided she should find a job with better hours and benefits. There was just one problem: no college degree. A friend told her about a job processing medical claims. Stevens talked her way into the interview and just kept talking as the boss looked at her quizzically. Suddenly something clicked in his head, and he said, "Aren't you that girl from the deli?" He had met her years earlier, maybe with a sandwich in her hands, and he hadn't forgotten...
...clean up mining sites, SEAS announced Monday. Colleen M. Hansel, a specialist in environmental microbiology, will receive $212,000 over the next two years and up to $537,000 over the next five years through the foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development award, she said in an interview yesterday. The award is given annually by the foundation to faculty in the sciences who haven’t yet achieved tenure but show promise in both their teaching and research. Hansel said the award was particularly welcome given current economic conditions, which have made it extremely difficult to obtain...
...himself in the delicate position of having to speak candidly to the American people about the current problems - which, at least with the banking sector, appear to be getting even worse - without aggravating those problems by lowering the national mood further. President Clinton recently explained the balance in an interview with ABC News. "I like trying to educate the American people about the dimensions and scope of this economic crisis," Clinton said. "I just would end by saying that he is hopeful and completely convinced we're going to come through this." Obama will almost certainly demonstrate that sentiment...
...rights atrocities back in their homeland. Only one has provided Colombian prosecutors with extensive testimony, though teams from the Colombian attorney general's office are in the U.S. this week to try again. "The investigations lost a lot of momentum because it became much harder for the Colombians to interview the paramilitaries," says Maria McFarland of Human Rights Watch in Washington...