Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

He was proud of his accomplishments, proud of his job, proud that Donald Kruger and his associates trusted him.

He was an honest man doing a hard job, and the implication that he was anything else was unbearable.

I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.

Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.

We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

After all, Woodruff owned a competent printing plant and was the logical man for the job.

But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

The statement was also made that undoubtedly the railroad had received some compensating benefit from the telegraphers, but that it was difficult to imagine what could balance a job for life.

The Faget case was the kind of salvage job the Administration should not have to repeat.

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

Called a `` Slo-Flo '' meter it was designed for this job by Power Plus Industries of Los Angeles, a key individual being Don Nelson.

Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

The only trouble was that he himself was tied up on the school job.

Previously known as Jefferson Arms, Kodiak has given this 11-shot hammerless job an exceptionally fine stock design, and the 260 is the first autoloader to handle

The photograph, Figure 1 of the completed frieze, shows how, having been separated from his fellows in useless isolation for eighty years, he has now been given a hand, and by juxtaposition ( and the permission of the Committee ), given a new job, to represent the witnesses of the first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

He also wrote that Hill " was a left-winger who'd never expressed any religious sentiments whatsoever ... and the only reason why she'd held a job in the Reagan administration was because I'd given it to her.

Unlike other C-suite positions, which tend to be defined according to commonly designated responsibilities across most companies, the COO job tends to be defined in relation to the specific CEO with whom he / she works, given the close working relationship of these two individuals.

While a young researcher working for the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Tombaugh was given the job to perform a systematic search for a trans-Neptunian planet ( also called Planet X ), which had been predicted by Percival Lowell and William Pickering.

Clinton was, for a time, given a formal job in the administration.

He was already working independently on the construction of two railway stations, at Toulouse and Agen, and in 1866 he was given a contract to oversee the construction of 33 locomotives for the Egyptian government, a profitable but undemanding job in the course of which he visited Egypt, where he visited the Suez Canal which was being constructed by Ferdinand de Lesseps.

The price quoted by Eiffel was FF. 965, 000, far below the nearest competitor and so he was given the job, although since his company was less experienced than his rivals the Portuguese authorities appointed a committee to report on Eiffel et Cie's suitability.

Like the Douro bridge, the project involved a lengthy viaduct crossing the river valley as well as the river crossing, and Eiffel was given the job without any process of competitive tendering due to his success with the bridge over the Douro.

Wood was given the job, but instead made a movie about transvestism.

An insurance underwriter's job is to evaluate a given risk as to the likelihood that a loss will occur.

Loki says that Odin does a poor job in handing out honor in war to men, and that he's often given victory to the faint-hearted.

( This may be a reason why trade unions press for minimum wages, i. e. to protect older workers on the job from the competition of younger, cheaper workers on the job market, for a given level of productivity.

Cunningham resumed duties again in 1999, but after a lukewarm 2 – 4 start, Jeff George was given the starting job.

Surveys revealed that " new employment or seeking a new job ," " job transfer ," and " business " were major reasons given by new immigrants for coming to the capital.

The job of tutoring new users or helping more experienced users get the most out of a program is left to private publishers, who are often given significant assistance by the software developer.

Mumphord and Coach Don Shula were involved in a feud at the time and it is thought that Stuckey was given the starting job for this game because of Shula's and Mumphord's differences of opinion.

On top of wrong allocation of finances, large bribes are given to and received by officials ( or their families ) in charge of choosing contractors for the jobs, like in the recent Suvarnabhumi Airport project, where a car park contractor allegedly gave $ 250 million USD to an the prime minister's sister in order to secure acquisition of the job.

Marshall privately turned down the nomination, assuming the job would be boring given its limited role.

Having given up his first job — teaching — after just one day, Watson took a year's course in accounting and business at the Miller School of Commerce in Elmira.