Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down to earth, Fred Springborn starts his day early and ends it late. Arriving at his ^ cramped Treasury Department office at about 6 a.m., the foreign-exchange specialist scans a Reuters video monitor through bleary eyes, checking the latest U.S. dollar prices from Bonn to Bangkok. After conferring by phone with colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Springborn heads down two flights of stairs to brief his boss, Treasury Secretary James Baker, who normally arrives before 7:30. In consultation with Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and senior Treasury officials, Baker decides whether to sell dollars...
...widespread power failures that left more than 2.75 million customers without electricity, some for several days. Long Island, N.Y., smack in the path of Gloria's worst, for the most part suffered little but toppled poles and trees and smashed windows. All along the storm's route there were phone lines down, steeples and trees felled, cars bashed by limbs, roadways flooded, some roofs dislodged, boardwalks buckled, beaches undermined and eroded, small boats sunk, windows smashed. Bad enough, perhaps, but when contrasted with what had been expected, whew! again. New York City Mayor Edward Koch found his typically unique words...
This week, I'll come back. Samantha won't be picking this week. She hasn't answered our phone calls, and I think someone told me about a terrible accident with boiling water and melted butter down at Bay State Lobsters...
...avenging ice-cream truck drivers and shaver-brandishing slam dancers around every corner. For Paul, the evening had begun innocently enough, running into Beautiful Stranger Marcie (Rosanna Arquette) at a mid-town diner as each pretended to enjoy a solitary meal. In no time at all, the two exchange phone numbers, and after checking the cable T.V. schedule for the evening, Paul decides to try his luck with the lady from uptown. Tempting him with the prospect of purchasing one of her off-beat roommate's bagel and cream cheese sculptures, Marcie invites our hero to... what else?... her loft...
...action verbs to state what responsibilities you carried out, and use numbers such as size of budget, workers supervised, persons served, reports written, to add impact. Don't say, "Responsible for ..." This doesn't communicate what you did or what you achieved. Don't list the name and phone number of a reference. If you have letters of reference from the supervisors of your most responsible positions you may want to attach them...