Word: rowes
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...company's ethos has always glorified long hours and sacrifice. One boss gave a plaque to the employee "who turns on the lights in the morning and turns them off at night." Darrell Owens, a 14-year Best Buy veteran, once stayed up for three days in a row to write a report that was suddenly due. He got a bonus and a vacation, he says, but first, "I ended up in the hospital." Cali Ressler, a human-resources executive, had noticed an alarming trend: women were accepting the reduced pay and status of a part-time position but doing...
Schroeder rowed without aid of his seat, opting to slide painfully on the bare track for 2,000 meters. The breakage forced Harvard to row with what felt like 160 pounds of dead weight. After the initial malfunction, however, all eight were able to continue rowing, albeit more laboriously than usual...
...valiant effort of trying to row with his seat jammed,” said Stephens. “I can’t even imagine how much it hurts to do that. But this hilarious part was that nobody in the crowd could tell. He was rowing half-slide and keeping in time...
...usual. On any other day the sharp knock at the back of the bus as it approached Piccadilly Circus might have been interpreted as something mundane: an umbrella hitting the floor, a high heel?s clatter. Today it provoked a panic for one woman seated in the back row of the lower floor. She looked around anxiously for a minute or so and then surged towards the doors, pushing past those standing. Locked in traffic, less than 100 yards from the next bus stop, she started shouting for the driver to open the doors immediately. When he began driving toward...
...executive vice president, says going private gave Springs the flexibility it needed to address the tough reality facing the industry. "We also recognized early on where trade laws were going--that this is going to be a quota-free world--and said, Let's get our ducks in a row...