staff
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The caption on one of the videos says the coaching staff was “taunting Eagles fans after the game-winning touchdown.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Some staff had other things in common: Katz was Jewish, and so was Jackie Junger, who had joined the practice a few years later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The local authority says this means it will not consider firing and rehiring more than 23,000 staff.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
He added that there had been "no new cases of staff from the anti-plague institute seeking medical attention" since the woman's death.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
There wasn’t enough staff, food, or medicine to adequately care for any of them.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
On Sunday, Ellison called state attorneys general and their staffs to go over the deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
He helps decide who staffs agencies, what gets funded, which direction the country points in when it comes to research.
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2026
These funds-of-funds typically employ large staffs to rigorously analyze the track record of other hedge funds in hopes of identifying those with the greatest probability of producing impressive future returns.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025
Their careers would cross paths from 1984-90 on the coaching staffs of the Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings and New York Jets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
Jill Biden was, too, as were a number of senior women from both the East and the West Wing staffs.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
For many Americans taking a weight-loss drug, Thanksgiving presents a conundrum: Take the weekly dose that staves off hunger, or push it off so they can feast?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
"In our model, the barrel staves spread out in steps," he says, "each step representing a new limiting factor that becomes active as the cell grows faster."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
France's Emmanuel Macron was on Friday due to pick a head of government tasked with pulling the country out of a political gridlock, in a move that staves off fresh elections for now.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
It means not all the cuts will go ahead and it staves off effective bankruptcy, but it also saddles Havering with high debt repayments for the next 20 years.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024
With wild yells very uncharacteristic of peaceful mice, the friends seized their staves and charged out, fired with new zeal.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
It will be staffed by 20-year-old Anderson Khalil, who found Crouch the way most young volunteers do now: social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
At Burger King, managers are being instructed to double-check that orders are made the way customers want, ensure front counters are staffed and respond to diner complaints as part of an enhanced customer-service program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
A China-based app studio built a network of more than 20 dating apps that claimed to be staffed by real people but were secretly run by Claude.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
And investors may have underappreciated just how strong second-quarter earnings were, according to Patrick Palfrey, head of portfolio strategy at Seaport Research Partners, a Chicago-based research firm staffed by many Wall Street veterans.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Women who did get assigned to another section were usually staffed on temporary duty and eventually returned, keeping the two offices full, at least for the moment.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
One Shandong-based ship staffing company is even offering as much as $25,000 per round trip as reward, according to seafarers and recruitment advertisements seen by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The charity has already reduced staffing costs, but trustees said it would close permanently unless it raised £25,000 by the end of October.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Backers said it could be a lifeline to local news organizations, many of which have struggled to maintain staffing levels over the past two decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
The company, he said, also invested in staffing and infrastructure at that time, when growth expectations were higher.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
We can prevent the people fighting wars or staffing emergency rooms or policing the streets from making mistakes.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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