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...know much about politics, but at least Zhu understands the stock market." At 19 Lin Yan is too young to remember the bad days of meat rationing, but she has a fair idea of what the stock market is. She has already moved from working as a hotel receptionist to a better-paying job selling sports equipment in Wuhan's Galaxy Plaza department store. Three nights a week she goes to private English classes, which she pays for out of her salary of $75 a month, "because if you don't know English, you can't use computers...
...finally handed in the thesis an hour and a half late. I slammed it down on the desk of the receptionist, I turned around and there was a bouquet of flowers waiting from my thesis advisor," he said. "I had this terrific feeling of warmth and generosity for all people. I just started bestowing favors on everybody...
Since leaving the White House in 1994, Kathleen Willey's day-to-day life has become hand-to-mouth. She has worked as a receptionist at a Richmond hair salon. During the 1996 presidential campaign, Willey was in the middle of a four-month stint at the city's Montana Gold Bread Co., a place she used to patronize. With a T shirt, an apron and a bandanna, she was responsible for the cinnamon rolls early in the day and later for muffins, kneading bread and waiting on the clientele. "I thought she might be a snob at first when...
Thinking that the UHS orthopedist would still have my X-rays, I rode the elevator up to the fifth floor. He didn't. The receptionist explained that I needed to go to the basement where X-rays are done. Normally, this would have been merely a minor annoyance, but boy, was I woozy. The UHS elevator does that...
...thought of having to turn around and get back into that illness-inducing suspended box was too much. The receptionist directed me to the nearest staircase, and I began to make my way downstairs. Everything should have been simple from that point. It wasn...