Word: receipts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...included in that definition? Those who can sign a credit-card receipt but are incapable of writing a letter when they think their bill is wrong; those who can pay the correct change at the supermarket but have difficulty calculating the difference between regular and sale prices; those who can scan a newspaper story but cannot paraphrase its contents...
...mortal risk, as he had only one kidney (transplanted from his brother years ago after both kidneys failed). But for 10 days he refused to leave Kenya to receive better treatment. Ignoring pleas from friends and family, he decided he had to stay in Nairobi to oversee the receipt of part of a $155 million conservation aid package from an international group of donors led by the World Bank...
Eschenmoser has been honored by his receipt of over 13 awards from both Swiss and American institutions...
...secretary who knows: how to fix the copier without calling the service person, who to call when the voice mail system goes on the blink, when every flex-time employee will actually be in the building, how to get accounting to reimburse funds even though the receipt is lost and where the copy of a bill that was sent out two years ago will be filed. It is also the secretary who must maneuver between competing egos (all of whom think the secretary should be working on their project first), placate disgruntled clients over the phone and explain...
...interest of the Harvard student body; the show will sell out regardless, because the demand for tickets is there. The Grateful Dead are the top-grossing concert act in rock history. On the road for over 25 years, they perennially top year-end concert receipt lists. They sold out six shows at the Boston Garden in the fall of 1991, drawing more than 90,000 people. And in the fall of 1992, they cancelled the same number of shows due to Jerry Garcia's illness...