Word: list
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been asked to give you folks a description of one case at McBane, a company that serves global corporations by helping them solve their most fundamental global business problems. The word of the day is global. Remember that, or I'll black-list you and close your dad's plant down...
...were new inconsistencies in the defense, though he knew no one much cared anymore. With odd intensity, McCollum and Wisconsin's Jim Sensenbrenner carefully wrote down the names of each and every one of the 25 Republican Senators who voted against them, as if they might fold up the list and press it in their wallets for safekeeping, then wait for some chance to avenge the snub...
...deserve to die, she insisted. "I thought this can't be. Where's the Pope when you need him?" she said, staring forlornly at the sprawling branches framing her living-room window for the last time. "It had to be a mistake since it wasn't on the original list...
...mind as machine," says David Schaafsma, professor of English education at Teachers College of Columbia University. "Writing is a human act, with aesthetic dimensions that computers can only begin to understand." The Kaplan course, a leader in test prep, has taken a more pragmatic approach: it has issued a list of strategies for "the age of the computerized essay." One of its tips: use transitional phrases like "therefore," and the computer just might think you're Dickens...
...list of unprofessionalisms go on. I could mention the time I said out loud, to a friend on the penthouse floor of Hilles, "I guess I'm wasting my time and theirs as well." Moments later, a pantsuited woman standing 10 feet from me perked up, walked over and introduced herself as the representative from the firm I was interviewing with. I cringe to think how much of our conversation she overheard. As you can probably guess, I didn't get a second round interview...