Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Billy Duarte arrives at Mather House at 5 p.m. In a large bag, he carries cigars of varying size, shape and nationality into his office. For a few hours he sits in his office listening to students who want to pick up a package, get into their rooms or register their complaints about poor plumbing. Billy has worked as the principal Mather security guard for the last three years. He has worked as a Harvard guard for the last 11. All evening, Billy eyes his bag. By 9 p.m., he has selected this evening's cigar, a strong and long...
...work won't be over for two more hours. While partners and senior staffers tend to leave the office early to rejoin their families, young analysts burn the midnight oil. The hours are enormously variable, they say. "You're here as late as you want to be--you work until you're done, basically," one associate says. Some night analysts leave early enough to see the sun go down, but at other times they must stay until 2 or 3 a.m. Shemmer says he sleeps about six or seven hours a night--far less than he was used...
...Shemmer places a call to the CEO for more information, then drafts a one-page summary of the company for his client, a time-consuming prospect. "It takes a while," he says. "You have to dissect a company in an hour so the buyer can figure out, 'Do we want this...
...want to win all of our dual meets," Haggerty said. "The first couple of weeks will give us a base for moving on. Track is a sport where by nature you're trying to peak at the right time, since your championship is decided by one meet...
...Darwin talked of the basis from which life evolved, not of the end product," Haggerty said. "One has high hopes and goals. We want to win the league championship. But people will be more successful if they concentrate on the process at hand rather than the long-term consequences...