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...workman here the other day," Laybourne says at her office in Oxygen's loftlike downtown Manhattan headquarters (very new-media-start-up, very exposed-pipes-and-brick). "He said, 'Hmmm. Network for women. What're you going to do, fashion?'" Not exactly. When the channel launches on Feb. 2 (the date, 02/02, plays off the chemical symbol for oxygen), it will offer a mix of talk shows, comedy and women-oriented finance, sports and consumer shows, from a positive, sister-solidarity perspective. What "fashion" there is comes in forms like a comic riff on the empowering influence of a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Will Women Take A Breath Of Oxygen? | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...showed a workman-like ethic tonight," Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. "We got out of the gate well and then did a good job getting to the line...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Tames Great Danes | 1/7/2000 | See Source »

...driveway that leads to the biggest warehouse you've ever seen. The place is known as the Coffeyville Distribution Center, and Bezos (pronounced Bay-zos), who's never been here before, is giggling with excitement. He tells the driver to stop so he can snap a picture of a workman pounding a HELP WANTED sign into the turf. Bezos, 35, a meticulous documentarian, is worried that his life is scrolling by too fast to remember, a life that is so fantastic as to verge on the unbelievable. So he takes plenty of pictures and awful, jittery amateur videos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Massachusetts workers would lose jobs, as prisons would pay sub-minimum wage," said PSLM member Joshua Levin '02. "Prisoners would receive no workman's compensation, no vacations...

Author: By Joseph P. Chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PSLM Protests Prison Labor at State House | 3/24/1999 | See Source »

While many would expect an NFL neophyte to head into his career with reckless abandon, Birk has made the leap to the NFL with a professional, workman-like approach. Untouched by the glamour and mystique of the NFL spotlight, Birk has carried out business as usual...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Star Birk Adjusts to NFL | 2/4/1999 | See Source »

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