Word: workman
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...captain says. “I plug some gaps, eat double teams in the middle. It’s part of defense, you take a double team and a linebacker comes through and makes a play...it’s kind of a hard-hat, workman-like mentality of stopping the run first, so I’m definitely trying to add to that...
...more of a manager than a bold leader or a visionary." - Don McDonough, former Locke pollster, on his old boss' workman-like demeanor, Washington Post...
Shanghai East International Medical Center, a joint venture between the privately owned U.S. Health Management Enterprises of Los Angeles and China-based Shanghai East Hospital, caters to the city's Westerners, according to CEO Paul Workman. A study conducted by Hewitt Associates, a global human-resources-services company, revealed that 55% of companies plan to boost the number of expats they employ this year, a 2% increase over 2007. About 21% of China's expats are Westerners, whose private insurers and employers often pick...
...Carrie is right in seeing Manny not as just a superb writer-reviewer, but the manliest, or Manniest, of them all. He approached film writing as a superior workman does a challenging job: total planning, total inspiration, hard work. And a respect for his craft. He was tough on other critics, and on himself, but he never demeaned the writing to which he brought so much passion and pain. "Criticism is very important, and difficult," he said in the Ollman interview. "I can't think of a better thing for a person to do." Surely no one did it better...
...Times's William Knoedelseder. "You might say I was unionized into a corner." Mitzi got a fig leaf of satisfaction three years later, when an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the comedians, as independent contractors, could not be unionized. "In my personal view, workman's comp, benefits - those were always in the back of Mitzi's mind as something that would break the Comedy Store," says Hamilton. "I was thrilled," Mitzi says of the ruling. "It meant they never had to pay taxes to the government...