And, I tell you Yvonne, we get a lot of people thinking they can just fill out a couple of packets of papers, go to a couple of training sessions, and bam, they've got a kid and a check in one clean swoop.
As Levine, the assistant general manager of the Texas Rangers, conversed one evening at last week's Major League Baseball general managers meetings, his eyes kept wandering to an enticing packet of paper sitting on a nearby coffee table: the 2006 Pecota Projections.
For $80 a week, my in-laws received a large bag filled with enough dishes to last them at least five meals, including a soupy yellow daal, cabbage, bhindi (okra) and a foil wrapped packet of paper thin Gujarati rotis.
While it's unlikely people will get their grandma a mere packet of paper clips or their son a simple sink plug, as a festive starter, it would make for an excellent prank.
offices are located — which occurred shortly after September 11th: I was reading a thick packet of paper clippings, looking for something fun to say about Afghanistan, the Taliban, Saddam Hussein, the anthrax postal attacks: it was grim.
And the other day, the packet of papers turned up in my house – my house!
They were told to sit down at a desk, on which there was a packet of papers for them to look at.
After a few days in the archives, I noticed, in the corner of a frayed packet of papers, a single word: "confidential".
With the notice of his new status came a packet of papers, one of which referred him to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, one of the seven agencies supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund.
