Word: rolodex
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...give yourself a reading list? I did a little bit of revisiting of poems that are important to me, and poets in the Rolodex who have addressed the moment in language that is fresh and not hackneyed or corny. I've gone back to poets like Gwendolyn Brooks and Auden and Seamus Heaney. But I've also had to put them aside, Brooks in particular, because I kept looking at great lines and thinking, She already--I can't do that! At the end of the day, your job is to listen to your own music...
...different people and get his resume to different companies that he would have never had a chance to find on his own. Ask about what he?s done in the past and about what kind of jobs he?s interested in, so you can go through your Rolodex and see if there are contacts that he might benefit from meeting. Also, if you?ve ever lost a job, tell him. Misery loves company. Remind him that it happens to a lot of good people...
...powers at home grew, al-Maliki looked to expand his international Rolodex beyond his longtime backers in Tehran. In July, the Iraqi leader flew to Europe for appearances in Germany and Italy and at the European Union headquarters in Brussels - all haunts of Bush Administration "frenemies" over Iraq. Talk of Iraq's potential ability to increase oil and gas exports to Europe was high on the agenda during the tour. And earlier this month, al-Maliki's government announced plans to revive a $1.2 billion oil deal with China that had first been inked in 1997 under Saddam Hussein...
...lend a hand. She was initially skeptical--"Didn't he just lose a congressional race to Bobby Rush?" she asked--but agreed to hear Obama out. She invited Obama to her Michigan summer home for a weekend. He won her over, landing on his finance committee a Pritzker whose Rolodex contained the names of Chicago's leading business, cultural and philanthropic figures...
...studios reminds me of studio honcho Jack Warner's alleged declaration that his staff writers were "schmucks with Underwoods." Considering that dismissal, he probably thought of Mozart as a schmuck with a piano. It might also be fair to say that Mr. Warner was just a schmuck with a Rolodex, which is much easier to operate than a piano or even--land sake's alive!--an Underwood...