Word: supervisor
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...work at one of the libraries on campus part-time. Whenever there isn’t someone that needs to be helped, I usually check my e-mail, go on instant messenger, or search through the facebook, but I’m always worried that if my supervisor catches me surfing the web, I’ll lose my job. Do you think it’s okay to continue doing this anyway...
...car’s passengers and its driver were not injured in the accident, which was reported to the Cambridge Fire Department (CFD) at 4:41 p.m. Saturday, according to CFD Communications Supervisor Kirk Warnum...
...caught, partly because their victims are often too scared to turn them in and partly because some schools are more interested in avoiding bad publicity than exposing violent kids. Just ask Song. Her assailants were never punished, although they have to check in regularly with a supervisor. "I hope they forget I exist," says Song. "I'm still afraid." Fear of violence should not be part of any high school curriculum...
DIED. Dan White, 39, former San Francisco supervisor who in 1978 shot to death the city's mayor, George Moscone, and its first openly homosexual supervisor, Harvey Milk; by his own hand (carbon-monoxide poisoning); in San Francisco. At his 1979 trial, White pleaded "diminished capacity," contending that a diet of sugary junk food had aggravated his severe psychological problems, an argument that became known as the "Twinkie defense." When White was convicted only of voluntary manslaughter, 5,000 rioters, most of them gays, stormed city hall. Following his release after five years in prison, White, unemployed and dogged...
...also they were talking about drugs." Looney, 25, transcribes the quote--"Damn. The second suitcase is still out there"--and it goes into the Entertainment Tracking System (ETS), the PTC's database on more than 100,000 hours of programming. "We track even those minor swears," says Looney's supervisor, Melissa Caldwell, "because it's a way of tracking trends." The ETS, in the words of PTC executive director Tim Winter, logs "every incident of sexual content, violence, profanity, disrespect for authority and other negative content." The ETS analysts don't monitor premium channels, which is just as well, because...