Word: queues
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...hiring queue, behind the horde of anxious college grads, are the high school students who lack either the money or the grades or the inclination for higher education. Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum points out that 1 in 10 teenagers lost a job during the recession. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration is trying to cut funding for federal job-training programs for young adults, even though independent studies have shown that for every dollar spent on programs for disadvantaged youth like Job Corps, society saves about $2 from increased productivity and lower costs related to crime and welfare. Jessica Collins...
...submit to its siren call, whole hours can go missing. I have a friend who recently found herself stuck on a cruise ship near Panama that didn't offer e-mail, so she chartered a helicopter to take her to the nearest Internet cafe. There was nothing in her queue but junk mail and other spam, but she thought the trip was worth...
...submit to its siren call, whole hours can go missing. I have a friend who recently found herself stuck on a cruise ship near Panama that didn't offer e-mail, so she chartered a helicopter to take her to the nearest Internet cafe. There was nothing in her queue but junk mail and other spam, but she thought the trip was worth...
...takes "Slow News Day" almost three times as long to cover the same emotional ground. Contrived plot points seem to be Watson's sticky wicket. The sudden sale of Katherine's hokey-sounding screenplay, forcing her to leave the paper, seems as unlikely as her not knowing the word "queue." "Dumped" likewise has some unbelievable circumstances, but they're at the service of a more ambitious statement so you forgive them. Among other things the book examines the importance of material objects in our lives - a smashed CD player becomes a key prop - while also working as a love story...
...when she declared that she would like to become a martyr. A few hours later, a young Palestinian woman stunned the world when she turned herself into a human bomb and exploded in Jerusalem, killing one Israeli and wounding 150 others. In the weeks after, more women joined the queue of suicide bombers as the world stood alarmed and bewildered...