Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor with two young children enrolled in full-time Harvard-affiliated care can easily be paying almost $3,000 a month, Doherty says. The 1991 report noted that the cost of childcare consumes almost a third of a junior faculty member's salary...
...Billy grew up in Somerville and still lives there with his wife and two daughters--15-year old Crystal and 10-year old Melissa. "I just got their report cards," Billy reported. "Melissa did really well. Except in science where she got a D. With all those As and Bs, I thought she could have at least gotten a C. My oldest, Crystal, wants to teach someday. History. Old history, she likes especially, Greek mythology, Zeus and all his children and that stuff...
...their 80-hour weeks: in cubicles, in front of a computer monitor. This is an Internet economy, and Shemmer conducts the vast majority of his business online--trading e-mail messages, surfing the Web, with an occasional phone call to lighten the glow of the screen. Shemmer writes a report the way Harvard students write papers, stopping every 10 minutes to check his e-mail. He estimates that he gets between 50 and 100 e-mails...
...sense trouble when Shemmer checks his overnight voice mail. There's a message from one of his superiors, and he sounds "mildly pissed." Apparently a report that Shemmer sent over yesterday contained a single incorrect figure about revenue growth, the result of a minor mathematical error. ("Banking is like that--we're detail, detail, detail oriented," Shemmer explains. "No spelling errors, no errors in numbers. It has to look professional.") Shemmer dials the boss on speakerphone. "Dino, babe," says the senior staffer caustically. Without a beat, Shemmer explains the error and tells him it's been corrected. "I apologize...
...last report I heard in Amherst yesterday was that some First Amendment advocates were hoping to stage the production even after its cancellation by the high school. They will have to find a director, since Amherst Regional High School's musical director is already booked for the season, orchestrating "Crazy for You" in place of "West Side Story...