Word: janitor
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...group as praiseworthy as our students are.” Griffin works for both PBH (the building and department of the Faculty of Arts and Science) and PBHA (the non-profit umbrella service organization that includes the Progressive Student Labor Movement). “I’m a janitor for PBH but I identify with PBHA only,” he says. “I even identify with people like the PSLM. I’m a Reagan Republican and I still think they’re great kids. All those kids put their academic lives...
Then came Sept. 11. Rolling black clouds of smoke and dust drifted over to his neighborhood in Brooklyn. Sanders, like people everywhere else, was depressed by the attacks. His problems and successes were dwarfed by their implications. Finding work got even harder. He had a second interview for a janitor job at a Brooklyn YMCA but was finally told he was "too good for the job." "What does that mean? Was I dressed too nicely?" he says. In October he broke down crying in an elevator in Manhattan after being rejected for a messenger...
...secret assignment at the behest of an anonymous but wealthy client. The crew soon focuses its wandering attention on the new “mop boy” who has mysteriously materialized on board the vessel. After a brief but intense interrogation, the true identity of the inept janitor is revealed: he’s Darryl Loomis, spelling prodigy and teenage stowaway...
...awarded the same amount as survivors of someone pulling in half a million on an upward trajectory? The answer to that one's easy. Because we have no way of knowing who was going to be making what later in their lives - the guy working night shifts as a janitor could have been going to law school during the day, and the vice president on the 55th floor could have been fired two weeks after the terror attacks. The compensation shouldn't be about salaries - in and of themselves a totally arbitrary measure of a person's worth - and without...
...floor down won't stop yapping. He swipes the pooch, climbs to the roof, wraps his hands round the bitch's neck then dangles it over the side. It's Man and Beast pushed to the edge. Lee relents and locks it in a closet. The building's janitor, however, has a predilection for poodle and returns it to the action?in a pot of stew. This dog is the first of many to perish...