Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nora began her directing career as she did her reporting days at the Post, tapping her circle of influential friends. She interviewed successful directors for practical advice -- Nichols, Sidney Lumet, Alan Pakula, Rob Reiner. Reiner, with whom Nora had collaborated on When Harry Met Sally , wrote a detailed director's commentary on the shooting script of This Is My Life and gave advice on the editing. "Everyone told me how fatiguing it would be, how I should get into shape before shooting started," says Ephron. "They didn't tell me how great it would be. I couldn't wait...
...being given the chance to become the carpenters of their own futures. But the children of Camden, like all poor children in all dying cities, need more than pilot projects and symbolic gestures. "Camden is the purest distillation of our policy of not-so-benign urban neglect," says Congressman Rob Andrews. "We cannot afford to just write off 10% to 15% of the American public as irredeemable. Anyone who has any compassion must feel this...
...Blunsten has even managed to out-sitcom television sitcoms: Rob C. Scalise '93 arrived at Adams 40 minutes before the show started, missing his other "T.V." favorite, Beverly Hills...
...simply designated "United States of America." Area residents nod knowingly at mention of the facility. "For years residents of Loudoun County have quietly smiled to themselves that if all the other roads in the county were choked with snow and ice, that one road would be practically dry," says Rob Montgomery, a county employee. "Care was always taken that people could get in and out of there...
...their executives excessive salaries -- a provision that could kick in when big shots' salaries exceed 25 times the earnings of a company's lowest- paid worker. Clinton views most current worker-training schemes as virtually useless. "Roughly 70% of corporate training expenses serve only 10% of employees," says Rob Shapiro of the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist think tank that is advising Clinton. "Companies are loath to train lower-rung employees for fear they'll leave for other jobs. Compelling all U.S. corporations to spend similar amounts on all employees would solve the problem...