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...Welcome to our midday family meal," Lori says, as she sits in her office at Rudivani Precision Motorworks, the car-repair shop she manages in Webster Groves. The two mechanics are eating take-out sandwiches; Lori is eating a hamburger and returning phone calls in her little office. Propped up in the corner is a framed poster called 21 Suggestions for Success. The top four: "Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. Work at something you enjoy, and that's worthy of your time and talent. Give people more than they expect...
...many families," author William Zinsser wrote two years ago, "looking something up in Peterson is as habitual as looking something up in Webster." The analogy is apt. Peterson provided a visual vocabulary so useful and influential that it is hard to imagine how people ever looked at nature without...
...borrow lightly from the esteemed former Senator Webster, picture a cog as one that functions as a necessary but subordinate part of a larger process, organization as system. Then change the process, so that we no longer need the cogs, and there you go, all these unnecessary little metal bits clogging up the system, bungling effiency standards, slowing the gears...
...studied the Bill of Rights and its implications, that point was stressed. To allow the Net to carry immoral language and art that are frowned on by polite society is not only incorrect but infringes on the rights of others, regardless of what some idiotic judges may say! FRANK WEBSTER Detroit...
...boiled down to a battle of spitballs, the Clintons could breathe easy. But again it's Starr who can make the real trouble. The Republicans have asked him to investigate for "possible violations of law" White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, Hillary Clinton confidante Susan Thomases and Webster Hubbell, the former Associate Attorney General who is serving time for inflating billing records at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. And after briefly trying to assign the task to the FBI, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked Starr to investigate how the White House got hold of secret...