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job and was
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.

job and informal
The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary from a particular field of study, hobby, job, sport, etc.
Fuller accepted a job decorating the interior of the café in exchange for meals, giving informal lectures several times a week, and models of the Dymaxion house were exhibited at the café.
They also learn about their work group, the specific people they work with on a daily basis, their own role in the organization, the skills needed to do their job, and both formal procedures and informal norms.
The test of a true cricketer is that he shall prefer village cricket to ' good ' cricket Blunden's friendliest memories are of the informal village game, where everyone plays in braces, where the blacksmith is liable to be called away in mid-innings on an urgent job, and sometimes, about the time when the light begins to fail, a ball driven for four kills a rabbit on the boundary.
An alternative definition uses job security as the measure of formality, defining participants in the informal economy as those ' who do not have employment security, work security and social security .” While both of these definitions imply a lack of choice or agency in involvement with the informal economy, participation may also be driven by a wish to avoid regulation or taxation.
" The Federalist Society's guide to forming and running a chapter of the society claims that the organization " creates an informal network of people with shared views which can provide assistance in job placement.
While in confinement, she took a job and became an informal liaison between the administration and her fellow inmates.
As a result, employees were given freedom to make decisions on the job and greater attention was paid to informal work groups.
I may have the bad habit of duzen ( using the informal address " du " to ) my work colleagues in our daily job.
The style of the book is informal, and in the first chapter Cringley claims that he is not a historian but an explainer, and that " historians have a harder job because they can be faulted for what is left out ; explainers like me can get away with printing only the juicy parts.
Assistance can be anything from job vacancy information, referrals, direct job recruitment, formal and informal training, and vouching behavior and leniency in supervision.
Access to formal and informal networks is an important component of job search and employability.
An employer may require a diploma, professional license or academic degree, say, for a job which can be done perfectly well applying skills acquired through experience or mere informal study.
Charles encouraged Pembroke to rebuild Wilton House in the Palladian style, recommending Inigo Jones for the job ( Salomon de Caus performed the work when Jones proved to be unavailable, while his brother, Isaac de Caus, designed a variety of formal and informal gardens for the property ).
These services include, but are not limited to, a free weekly health clinic for teens, free music and art programs, even an informal job mentoring program ( for the past 20 years, most of the Phoenix staff has been teenagers and young adults ).

job and college
Similarly, a girl who graduates with a good working knowledge of stenography and the use of clerical machines and who is able to get a job at once may wish to improve her skill and knowledge by a year or two of further study in a community college or secretarial school.
whether to pursue a college education or a job after high school ; ;
Also in 2010, Dayton was named one of the best places in the United States for college graduates to find a job.
According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics and other proponents of demographic structural approach ( cliodynamics ), the basic problem Egypt has is unemployment driven by a demographic youth bulge: with the number of new people entering the job force at about 4 % a year, unemployment in Egypt is almost 10 times as high for college graduates as it is for people who have gone through elementary school, particularly educated urban youth, who are precisely those people that were seen out in the streets during 2011 Egyptian revolution.
On December 15, 2006, the college filed a federal lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, alleging that a decision by the state to block the college from participating in the state sponsored CareerLink job service amounted to a violation of the college's First Amendment rights.
Examples include during a child's milestone stages, such as going to college, getting married, getting a job, and purchasing a home.
In Hampton, she found a job as a hostess in an inn at Hampton Institute, a historically black college.
In order to support himself and his wife, he took a job as a reader at another college.
During his time in college, Betty returned to live with her parents and took a job at the Indiana Bell Telephone Company while he worked part time as a cook at a local restaurant.
" often figures into jokes, like Special High Intensity Training ( a well-known joke used in job applications ), Special Hot Interdiction Team ( a mockery on SWAT ), Super Hackers Invitational Tournament, and any college name that begins with an S-H ( like Sam Houston Institute of Technology or South Harmon Institute of Technology in the 2006 film Accepted or Store High In Transit in the 2006 film Kenny ).
May placed an advertisement on the college notice board for a " Mitch Mitchell / Ginger Baker type " drummer ; Roger Taylor, a young dental student, auditioned and got the job.
As regards his stint as a college professor Deshpande was to write later that his job was to create hatred for Marathi language instead of love for it.
It may prepare the student with basic training for a job, and is the required step before enrolment into a college or university.
When Harry graduates from college, he unexpectedly brings home a wife, whose father has offered Harry an excellent job.
Apu began working at the Kwik-E-Mart during his college years to pay off his student loan, but stayed afterward as he had come to enjoy his job and the friends he had made.
* First college teaching job was 1940 at Connecticut College for Women.
provides GED preparation, return to public school, and placement into technical school, college, job, or military service.
Through years of on the job training, college education, officers may participate in a competitive examination, testing their knowledge, skills and abilities regarding criminal investigation, criminal procedure, interview and interrogation, search and seizure, collection and preservation of evidence, investigative report writing, criminal law, court procedure, and providing testimony in court.
Women also had much better job opportunities because they had a high school or sometimes college education, and were willing to leave the Little Italies and commute to work.
Helms's first full-time job after college was as a sports reporter with The Raleigh Times.
SUN Tech is a regional school that provides area students with skills needed to compete in today ’ s job market and receive consideration for advanced college placement.
SUN Tech is a regional school that provides area students with skills needed to compete in today ’ s job market and receive consideration for advanced college placement.
SUN Area Technical Institute located in New Berlin, Union County, PA 17855 SUN Area Technical Institute is a regional school that provides area students with skills needed to compete in today ’ s job market and receive consideration for advanced college placement.
SUN Tech is a regional school that provides area students with skills needed to compete in today ’ s job market and receive consideration for advanced college placement.

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