Sentences with phrase «story about a colleague»

Example: a story about colleagues from your office who repainted a home for a battered woman and her children.

Not exact matches

My colleagues and I share a lot of things — business intel, stories about our pets and kids, leftover Easter candy — but this query felt infinitely more personal.

And check out my Fortune colleague Carol Loomis» story about nine new signers of The Giving Pledge, which is Buffett's and Bill and Melinda Gates» philanthropic program to encourage billionaires to donate their money during their lifetimes.

-- With the spotlight on him, the president's son - in - law has become «paranoid,» CNN reports: «Kushner also feels that he has come under fire from his own West Wing colleagues recently, with the notion that «everyone is out to get him,» a source said... Kushner... told people that he suspected the timing of the story about his foreign contacts was coordinated to be released when issues surrounding his security clearance were in the news, according to a source familiar with his thinking.»

(My colleague Peter Kafka believes Facebook is a media company, and you should read this great story about it if you have some time.)

It's easy to think the Stormy Daniels scandal is a silly story, but as my colleague Matt Yglesias writes, this isn't just a story about infidelity with a porn star.

But he stands by the decision to ally with the Rwandan church, quoting a story common in AMIA circles about an African bishop who asked his Western colleagues, «You brought us the gospel 150 years ago — why are you not preaching the same one now?»

No, the real story is that motherhood has become a stress - laden and guilt - ridden project due to the societal veneration of stay - at - home moms, the workplace requirement that women be overachievers just to stay even with their male colleagues, economic anxiety about class standing and, above all, government and corporate refusal to devise family - friendly policies.

The other day a colleague of mine, who came to America from Russia via Israel, told me a story about her son who is in the eighth grade in a renowned progressive school in Cambridge, Massachusetts (than which no community could be more progressive).

The first week it opened, a number of my colleagues at Summit coffee shop visited and each came back regaling the same story, about the same recipe, the same starter, the same bread: Kindred's Milk Bread.

A caption accompanying a photo in the online gallery about Garcia gives another example of his determination: «In a story he used to tell he mentioned the initiation of the farmers» institutes and how he and a colleague, determined to get their message across, gave an entire speech «full blast and down to the last syllable» to a one - man audience in an auditorium.

My colleague E.M. Swift wrote the story about the Olympic champion from Norway with a «headful of dreams and almost a lifetime in which to accomplish them.»

He also said he's heard horror stories from customers and colleagues about ride - hailing drivers already breaking the new rules.

(Read more about it in my colleague George Zornick's Nation cover story).

UPDATE: A reader reminds me of another troublesome Sampson story that ran in the DN yesterday about how he chose to host a fundraiser at Yankee stadium while his colleagues and Gov. David Paterson were waiting for him up in Albany to negotiate on the budget in advance of the shutdown vote.

He told a funny story about how he had recently caused confusion at a dinner with EU colleagues in Bratislava: he said Brexit Britain would support the EU from the outside, like a flying buttress; the interpreters translated this as a «flying bucket».

Here's a story from from my colleague Randeep Ramesh about what George Osborne said on the subject in the autumn statement.

I want to thank Governor Cuomo, my co-sponsors Assembly Member Deborah Glick and Senator Mike Gianaris, my supportive Senate colleagues from both parties, the Empire State Pride Agenda, and the scores of individuals who shared their deeply personal stories about their experiences with sexual orientation change efforts.

But I stand here with colleagues that have demonstrated that they can deliver, that are incredible advocates, and who are really telling a story that's an easy sell, because it's about investing dollars now, where we know we can demonstrate the payback for those dollars in the future.»

Even after I had begged colleagues to stop e-mailing me pee stories, I couldn't pass up the chance to debunk fears about the deadly mix of urine and chlorine.

But I was afraid of governments launching gigaton nuclear weapons on spacecraft, as was a Russian colleague who had participated in the Soviet weapons program and had some wonderful stories about nuclear tests that went wrong.

This fall, Narayan and his colleagues presented Khodadoust's story at a medical conference and are in the midst of publishing reports about OMKO1 and the case study.

The book is as much a scientific exploration of how the canine brain might function as it is a deeply personal story about Berns's relationship with dogs as pets and colleagues.

Then, just weeks before Christmas, Kawaoka learned about a colleague in his very own department at UW - Madison, a research fellow from Sierra Leone named Alhaji N'jai, who was producing radio stories for people back home to help them protect themselves from Ebola.

Low - rise buildings four to 11 stories tall account for about 56 percent of deaths in the new estimate, Loss and his colleagues report in the February Condor: Ornithological Applications.

Hastings says that since the Science story on the allegations was published on 13 October, many colleagues, including department chairs, have contacted her «expressing concern, asking for resources, asking: What can I do in my department to talk about this?

Psychologist Ullrich Ecker of the University of Western Australia and his colleagues collected data last year showing that deceptive headlines, such as «Fears of Fluoride in Drinking Water» (which topped an article emphasizing the safety of fluoride in water), can provoke biased inferences about the story, leading to misconceptions.

Bokoch was a seminal figure in GTPase biology — for his discoveries, for founding meetings that put the young field on the map, for the impact he had on his colleagues and for the many young scientists that will tell stories about both his tangible and intangible support.

Or, a friend relays a story about having seen a colleague in their...

This is a story about the bad dietary habits of your colleague, not about the benefits of being a vegetarian.

I cracked up at your story about almost matching with a colleague... that may have been embarrassing but also would have been super funny.

In the course of her «search,» Arquette interviews several of her colleagues, among them Whoopi Goldberg, Diane Lane, Teri Garr, Holly Hunter, Vanessa Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling, Meg Ryan, and Sharon Stone, all of whom have their own personal horror stories about insensitive producers and casting directors who tend to think of over-40 (and sometimes over-30) actresses as being suitable only for mother, «other woman,» and «hero's girlfriend» roles — when they bother to cast these actresses at all.

They are strangers, neighbours and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

The hotel isn't haunted but the guest is in «War Story,» an unusually sober, serious - minded American indie about a war photographer (Catherine Keener) who retreats from view following the death of a colleague in the war zone.

Many colleagues have written about creating your own stories using Storybird.

His colleague shared stories not just about his own treatment at the hands of the police but also his personal anguish about how he should counsel his son about the police.

Part of the answer to my colleague Mike Petrilli's «Single - minded Focus» question the other day about the depressing college completion data is in Sam Dillon's recent front page New York Times story on the success of incentives (i.e. $ $ $) programs in getting poor kids into — and passing — Advanced Placement courses.

It was when Clinton spoke about charter schools to the NEA that boos could be heard, according to this story by my Washington Post colleague Emma Brown:

In this clip, enjoy stories about Dr. Cochran - Smith from some of those who know her best — her colleagues and students.

Covington Independent's Tiffany Gruen shares her story about how co-teaching made both her and a colleague better in the classroom.

Today's NY Times article about The Variant may provide a bump, but an esteemed colleague (Ze) cautions that he's never seen a real spike from stories in traditional media.

Adams's life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.

Anyone with a true story to tell about the challenges or the satisfactions of confronting mental health problems — whether your own or those of a friend, colleague, or family member — is encouraged to apply.

When I hear a good story from a colleague or author friend and can convince them to write about it for us here, the article usually resonates with readers.

Hi, Ruth — That's s wonderful story about the method your colleague used to get around the nonfiction eBook conundrum.

Yes, a recent Aussie story caught my eye - it started out talking about how women who work full time jobs and write romance part time (you can see why that would catch my eye)- have long hesitated to tell co-workers, colleagues and even friends and family that they write romance.

There are two sides to every story, and if we are to make a judgement about the credibility of a prospective client or the professionalism of a colleague, it is only right to get all the pertinent details and understand both sides of the story.

However I have heard horror stories from colleagues about dogs with burns and worse when dogs think a lit firework is some type of plaything.

After hearing many enthusiastic stories about diving with a Full - Face Mask from colleagues and friends, our instructors Nienke and Martijn got really curious and decided to try it for themselves.