Word: took
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...Denver. Some 300 of the 3,500 brokers and customer-service representatives at the centers work in the evening or at night, answering calls on everything from account balances to securities prices. When Deborah Maldeney, now a team manager at Schwab's Indianapolis center, joined the company, she took advantage of one of the 40 different job schedules Schwab offered her. She needed to begin work after finishing her evening M.B.A. classes at Butler University, so she chose a 10 p.m.-to-7 a.m. schedule. Maldeney believes that for her and many of her colleagues, working at night...
...success didn't come easy. The stores languished until 1984, when Gold's efforts finally began to pay off, in large measure because of the introduction of more wholesome goods. "[Gold] took the shops away from their run-down, seedy image," notes Kim Rawlings, editor of Contours, a lingerie trade magazine. "They sell a lot more basic lingerie...
...star exploded somewhere in space with a violence dwarfed only by the Big Bang, you'd think folks would notice. Sometime yesterday, however, just such a cosmic detonation probably took place, and almost nobody on Earth was the wiser. Sometime today there's likely to be another...
More important, the candidate who had promised to tear up all his talking points seemed to have done it. And, for once, the audiences seemed unscripted as well. Over the course of two days, Gore took questions on everything from global warming to cloudy tapwater, from prescription drugs to extraterrestrials. As he left the state on Friday, more than 1,000 Gore volunteers bused in from 14 states were preparing to knock on 100,000 New Hampshire doors...
...chip's "microcode," the instructions that are actually burned into the chip itself - is especially persnickety because it can manifest itself in a variety of ways, randomly deleting or corrupting information on otherwise healthy disks. Once Adams was sure he knew what he was dealing with, he took it to a Texas law firm, which filed the suit. MORE...