Word: errand
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...Through the friend of a friend, Gabita has secured the name of someone who'll do the job: the ironically named Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov). She is afraid of meeting him herself, so she sends Otilia on the errand. Mr. Bebe is an imposing fellow: solidly built and radiating macho menace. Every soft-spoken word and compact gesture announces his threat to these women who need his services. It happens that Gabita has bungled his instructions so completely, by not booking a room in the right hotel and not coming herself for the first meeting, that his rancor is almost...
...Padilla's downgrade from deadly menace to overeager errand boy is a tale of legal miscalculation and political overkill - a textbook case, critics say, of the overreaching of the Bush Administration's war on terror. Initially whisked away to the dark hole where "enemy combatants" go to be interrogated and held without charges, he emerged more than three years later as an almost conventional suspect endowed with constitutional rights. Gone were allegations of a dirty bomb and a scheme to annihilate apartment buildings. In their place were charges of conspiring to support terrorism and kill unspecified people overseas...
...vitamin E--and with the studies that debunked beta-carotene supplements as cancer fighters a few years ago--it may turn out that phytochemicals work only in tandem with one another or with other chemicals found in foods. Trying to isolate the "active ingredient" might be a fool's errand. Says Dr. Ronald Krauss, a nutrition and cholesterol researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab: "It's premature to interpret that research in any way other than you should eat more fruits and vegetables...
...date next February. Adds Rudd: "I think if the resources are there, it's worth it to stay longer. But we can't maintain that level of commitment indefinitely--and I don't rule out that some people may begin to ask whether we're on a fool's errand...
...hopes of getting noticed and getting a regular job.Oliver just hopes that writing a good script will get his foot in the door at a good company. “My current plan is to just get a job starting at the bottom where everyone starts, as a glorified errand boy,” he says. “Well, actually not even really glorified. You’re just an errand boy, pretty much.”One Harvard organization does provide support for Oliver and his pre-professional cohorts in their transition from class to career.Mia E. Riverton...