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Hideki Yokoi's good fortune is not unalloyed: he worries about protecting his treasure. Now he requires that his male receptionist inspect the bathers before they undress to see if they are carrying hammers, gimlets or any other sharp instruments. Scrapes and scratches have appeared mysteriously on the tub, and Yokoi fears that his guests might be trying to recoup their costs under their fingernails...
...prescribed real things, including marriage, playwriting and a job as an assistant to the music critic of Saturday Review. The marriage shattered, the play never got produced and the magazine got sold. Shipley tried singing in a folk-rock duo in 1976, took a job as a receptionist at a rehearsal studio to keep the apartment heated. She also kept writing, encouraged by a couple of musicians around the studio like Keyboard Player Ralph Schuckett, who helped her with musical structure, co-produced her first album and now shares a brownstone in Brooklyn with her. In Heroes of Yesterday, there...
...York Mets, may I help you?" asks the receptionist...
...Nobody here knows anything," replies the receptionist, innocently. "Wait, let me connect...
...firm, Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, calculates that the chief executive of a typical medium-size company in Germany earns 50% more than his U.S. counterpart, 40% more in Belgium and The Netherlands, and 20% more in France. Business International, a Geneva research firm, notes that in Switzerland today, a receptionist now gets $19,700 a year, an executive secretary $27,000 and a salesman...