Word: papering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Make purposeful use of capitals, underlining, positioning, and spacing. If you use a typed resume, have it reproduced by photo-offset. Beware of using too small type or reducing a typed resume, as you may also reduce your readership. Use white or ecru paper with matching envelopes and paper for your cover letters. Don't use bright-colored paper - it will overshadow your message and is more likely to land in the waste basket...
...hold your breath wondering if Gino can assimilate himself into this world. Sure, at first he is so unaccustomed to life in the lap of luxury that the uses the toilet in his suite and then puts the paper strip back on. But like Peter Sellers' Chance the Gardener in Being There, Gino coasts like a charmed figure, convincing everyone through his affable personality and his homespun platitudes that he is the genuine article...
What I really love about you, Derek, is your labor record. If I pick you for secretary of labor, you'll look great on paper to all those pro-union, liberal do-gooders up on Capitol Hill. As a professor of labor law, you have a great resume and a strong reputation for being pro-labor...
...going to put enough into New York to make Dukakis come back to hold us off," promises deputy campaign manager Rich Bond. Sure enough, Dukakis was scheduled to come to the Empire State on Columbus Day. Dukakis will also have to devote more time to Pennsylvania, which on paper seemed promising for the Democrats this year. Now it has become open country...
...format neatly regroups the paper's many departments into three sections: general news and commentary, marketing and consumer news, and hard- core financial reporting and statistics. Graphics are bolder, stock listings are more readable, and new statistical features have been added. Journal executives concede that the changes are being made "for competitive reasons." In the wake of last year's stock-market crash, advertising is down nearly 12%, and circulation has slipped 5%. Meanwhile, competitors like the New York Times, USA Today and Investor's Daily are chipping away at the Journal's market...