Word: stack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...employee at 124 Mt. Auburn St. reported that at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 20 a former employee took a stack of airline tickets as she was leaving...
Most resumes are read in one of two ways. In the first scenario, a person reads through one or a stack of several hundred resumes. Most readers read twice. They skim the resume seeking to understand the nature of your experience and how it might have the potential to meet their needs. Then they go back, seeking more depth which will establish the connection between their needs and you. In the second scenario, the resume is "skim-read" by computer. It is actually assessed through a keyword search. Specific qualifications, skills, traits, or languages listed in the position description...
...three centuries ago--tugging at the yoke of a Belgian draft mule. The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the simple mechanical whirl of his corn-harvesting machine and the creak of his oak-plank wagon as he hauls another stack of feed corn to his son-in-law's silo. Like their ancestors, Jacob and his kin light their farmhouses with gas lanterns and drive carriage horses--never automobiles--back and forth to town...
...prepare for this difficult mission, Albright closeted herself with Middle East advisers for hours and carted home a foot-high stack of briefing books. Obsessed with understanding the personalities of foreign officials, she pored over intelligence reports on Arafat along with Netanyahu's book, A Place Among the Nations. Once on the ground, though, Albright will rely heavily on her patented blunt talk. She won't be as bare-knuckled with these sensitive rivals as she was during her visit to the Balkans last May when she repeatedly dressed down Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian strongman Franjo Tudjman...
...aides described to TIME as an "almost impossible mission" in the wake of last week's events. Well, the secretary of state's mission ? which she chose to accept ? was to spend ten hours a day in closed-door security briefings, cart home a foot-high stack of books on the region. Now she must fly to Israel, and shuttle back and forth between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Arafat in an attempt to cool the war of words that has exploded between the two. Monday's rounding up of Islamic militants by Palestinian security teams helps her; the fact...