Word: janitor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...smacks his lips, and challenges mom to a toast. Cries of "Ganbei! [Cheers!]" echo in the hall as faces flush and cigarettes are lit. Tourists from Japan, Taiwan and Korea eye one another, making prideful toasts. A table is accidentally tipped over, a pitcher smashes to pieces, and a janitor mops up. Then the next group's shouts and laughter spill into the room as the bartender begins to pour...
...ineffective—and ever-growing—education bureaucracy, and the teachers’ unions it benefits. And, by law, no governor can raise revenue by modernizing the Prop 13-mandated property tax unfairness that leaves Warren Buffett paying a lower rate on his beach house than a janitor does on his apartment...
...Ruzhou killings are part of a chilling rite of passage endured by modern societies all over the world. Ruzhou was the sixth in a string of deadly attacks on Chinese schoolchildren that began in August, when a schizophrenic janitor at a Beijing kindergarten stabbed 14 children, killing one, according to police. A bus driver in Shandong province was executed earlier this month for slashing 24 kids in September; last month, a teacher in Hunan province was arrested for killing four students and wounding 12; two weeks later a man in Beijing was arrested for killing a six-year...
...could have a Midnight Madness thing,” Rogus said, “but the only ones there would be us, the coaches and the janitor...
...talked to a janitor. We also saw people in there,” Bean said yesterday, speaking from his cell phone back in Ithaca. “And one of your fine Harvard students reported us to the police...