Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recalled a bank president who had never cracked a joke, a man rarely given to laughter. After the Kushner treatment, the executive did not exactly become a barrel of monkeys, but he was able to cut loose with the odd one-liner. One venom-tongued supervisor, accustomed to dressing down tardy employees, now has the habit of saying, "So glad you could make it for lunch." The message is still clear, but it is not so much a brick...
Although Latta has a master's degree in mechanical engineering, he works as a meter reader for the Denver water department. Among his other claims to fame, Latta holds the Denver meter-reading record: 600 in a single day. Says his supervisor: "He is a phenomenon of accuracy and speed...
...talked to the supervisor of officials, "he said, then adjourned to the locker room and instructed his squad not to talk to the refs. Then he returned to the empty Harvard bench and paced in front of it, for effect, while the team warmed...
...John E. McCarthy, traffic supervisor for the Cambridge Police Department, agrees that bicycles and automobiles often seem locked in a constant battle over the streets...
...recent tragedy. Company officials insisted that nine of the deficiencies had been corrected by last June. A safety valve on a methyl isocyanate storage tank was still malfunctioning, they conceded, but it was nowhere near the tank that caused the disastrous leak. The firm did acknowledge that no U.S. supervisor had visited the Bhopal plant since the 1982 inspection, and no major audit of the facility had been undertaken in more than two years...