Word: worker
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Though the omnipresence of political spin can often overwhelm a campaign worker, Grimm said he is nevertheless “reminded of how special this campaign’s grassroots movement truly...
...above-the-fray approach that was evident in the future senator belied an intensity and a brilliance that would put him on the path to stardom, former professors and classmates said. Known as a tireless worker with a gift for seeing both sides of an issue, Obama became a favorite of prominent faculty members and rose to lead the prestigious Harvard Law Review, accomplishments that would serve him as he left Cambridge and returned to Chicago...
...follow campaign news, you'll see this cycle in action several times a day, with stories sprouting, blooming and dying like flowers in time-lapse photography. Breaking: McCain campaign worker assaulted! Has partisan anger gone too far? Let's ask the campaigns! Is media coverage of anger biased? Let's ask ourselves! Wait--story was a hoax! Never mind! Next...
...punters, and team-dependent athletes, like receivers. “Some types of jobs are distinctively more portable than others,” Abraham said. Punters, like retail brokers, work independently and are less influenced by a change in environment, she said, but the performance of NFL receivers, like workers on a team, is largely dependent on teammates. “It is a risky business of hiring stars,” Groysberg said. “Part of your performance is driven by the system that you are in.” He suggested that an efficient hiring structure...
...hairline stresses, lusts, and insanities that no society can ever completely wall in.But while Tsutsui’s message may be similar to “The Office,” the events through which he conveys that message are of a drastically different brand. His tired office workers encounter trees that inspire erotic dreams and find planets full of pornographic animals. Throughout Tsutsui’s eclectic assortment of stories, rather mundane characters are brought face to face with dystopia and the world of science fiction. Time machines and stampeding gangs of smoking abolitionists break through the white static...