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...Blue Waterby Leonora Nattrass, Viper £14.99 Historical crime writing of a vigorous order, with Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago on a mail ship to Philadelphia in 1794, transporting a crucial document...
...“Every day 100 or 200 packages from Amazon,” said Meir Cohen, an Efrat post office clerk, calling the recent influx “madness”....
...It is one of six US states that requires citizens to ask permission to cast a mail ballot....
...As early as 1731 the East India Company had “300 clerks, notaries and accountants scribbling figures into vast leather-bound ledgers,” according to the writer William Dalrymple....
...clerk, Steven Agudelo (balloons, karma, saying no)....
...In 2009 the clerk for legislation Robert Rogers, now Lord Lisvane, published a list of 75 actions to revive the chamber....
...The rates criminal barristers get paid for taking these cases are notoriously low — often less than £100 for a day’s work, out of which come travel costs and fees to chambers for sharing clerks (who act...
...Postmen who walked or cycled around delivering mail had fewer heart attacks than male telephonists and clerks who worked behind counters. Exercise protected against heart disease....
...After a year as a clerk for a federal judge he joined a small litigation firm in Orange County where he worked for clients as diverse as Walt Disney and property developers....
...A low-level registry clerk at the Bavarian headquarters of the BND, the German federal intelligence service, offers his services to the Americans by mail....
...The first visionary was Frank Lloyd Wright, who in 1904 designed a building in Buffalo for Larkin, a mail order business that was the Amazon of its time....
...Asked if they write letters, most people would echo the DLO’s famous fictional former clerk Bartleby in the Herman Melville story: “I would prefer not to.”...
...Mr Harris spent time as a clerk for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the US and at leading law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell before taking a sabbatical to consider what he wanted from his legal career....
...“I could have gotten my mail there.” Like Richard Burton, Goodman “romanticised” the bar....
...The City was an entirely different world when, in 1965, the descendant of a banking family joined Hoare & Co as a mail clerk, straight from Eton....
...Enthusiasts say this will help improve diet, reduce junk mail and catch criminals - only those with something to hide should fear. But some will detect shades of Big Brother....
...Seconds after Pietri, the New Yorker Johnny Hayes, a sales clerk at Bloomingdale’s, trotted over the line. Quite naturally, Hayes pointed out that Pietri had been aided....
...His first great successor, a century and a half later, was Charles Greville, clerk to the privy council from 1821 to 1861....
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...Old-fashioned town clerks used to be local worthies every bit as entrenched as the Alderman Foodbothams....
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...Young people typically started as runners or clerks on the floor, moving up as they learnt the ropes....
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...Each are charged with conspiracy to commit mail, wire and securities fraud; wire fraud; mail fraud; and conspiracy to commit money laundering....
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