Someone had the rare privilege of acting out a real-life version of an old Washington joke: "Can you send nine pizzas to the Supreme Court, four with mushrooms, four with pepperoni, and one plain?" The pressroom, usually so tidy, began to look like a frat house, with bits of microwave popcorn drifting into puddles of spilled coffee.
Someone had the rare privilege of acting out a real-life version of an old Washington joke: "Can you send nine pizzas to the Supreme Court, four with mushrooms, four with pepperoni, and one plain?" The pressroom, usually so tidy, began to look like a frat house, with bits of microwave popcorn drifting into puddles of spilled coffee..
Ms. Heide (rhymes with tidy) began writing only after all five of her children had entered school, but she proceeded to create a stream of entertaining literature that included books for girls adjusting to adolescence, mysteries and sports stories.
What began as a tidy little experiment has become perhaps the single biggest bet in the whole newspaper business: The Journal Register and MediaNews are now in 18 states, with over 800 print and digital products, with revenue of over $1.4 billion and 10,000 employees.
But while he begins with a tidy definition of religious acts as absolute commands performed with the intention of serving God, as acts that cannot be motivated by human concerns or interests, the fact that life involves other given civil and social settings requires that we deal with such interests.
And if all of that is true, you probably are not the kind of customer a New York law student named John imagined would indirectly earn him a tidy sum when, at the beginning of what became a very strange week in his world, he auctioned off Jenny's number -- his number now, at least in its 212 incarnation -- on eBay.
My journey began in Kanab, a tidy little Mormon outpost of mowed lawns and municipal buildings framed by glowing red bluffs.
It is unlikely, however, that the story that began Sept. 11 will have a tidy resolution, one longed for by the more smiley-faced aspects of our culture.
Applied, which began placing investment bets in China in 1984, recently hauled in a tidy payoff.
Buttler's feet were stuck in the crease, his hands groped for the ball and his outrageous talent was lost in the kind of crisis of confidence that leaves a batsman unsure if he will ever middle one again – inevitably, his hitherto improving and tidy keeping was beginning to suffer too.
My day starts at 8am, and we usually begin with a tidy-up, trying to clear the fallen petals and leaves.
