Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...local unemployment office held out little hope for a good new job. "I hate to tell you this," Drumm recalls the young woman saying, "but you know that you're over the hill." The remark hurt her deeply, but Drumm now says, "I really owe that girl a thank-you because she put a fire under my tail." With the help of a government program for dislocated workers, Drumm spent the next two years earning a bookkeeping degree, and now works for a local entrepreneur. It will take a nationwide confluence of such grit, entrepreneurship and effective public programs...
...Worse, he did not realize it. If he had, he might have better used the drama of his 72 hours in the hands of the secret police to advance his standing among a people disgusted with his halfhearted economic reforms and political vacillation. He could have gone out to thank the Muscovites who had struggled for him as they defied the spectral Stalinists who were trying to bring back the past. He could have publicly embraced his former foe, Boris Yeltsin, and accepted with a flourish the sudden, almost unlimited opportunity to create a new society atop the wreckage...
...Thank you. Or, for variety: More...
...graduating class, and for a year at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Conception, Mo. Remembering his childhood as he spoke to reporters in Kennebunkport, Thomas choked up so much that he could barely get through the remarks scrawled in ink on a sheet of loose-leaf paper. "I thank all of those who have helped me along the way . . . especially my grandparents, my mother and the nuns, all of whom were adamant that I grow up to make something of myself...
...doing a job to reach a common goal, and that is to take good care of that patient. I think the nurses feel as if they have tremendous self-worth when they are in my O.R. There are lots of pleases and lots of thank yous. My operating room is a happy environment...