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PUSHING PAPER.(Television Program Review)
Nobody who has seen the BBC series "The Office" has anything bad to say about it, and there's a reason for that: it's perfect. It's a comedy that doesn't make you laugh, and at times it is close to unbearable; some people like it so much that they can't watch it. That's how good it is. Created and directed by the writers Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, "The Office," a pretend BBC documentary about a "typical workplace," captures, with awful brilliance, both the details of day-to-day office life and what the larger landscape of working life has come to look like over the past few decades, since words such as "redundancy" and "downsizing" and the even more chilling ...
- Elkhorn Slough's Life As A Salt Marsh In Trouble As Sediment Is Washed Away:...
- Newspaper article from: Monterey County Herald (Monterey, CA) February 15, 2007 700+ words
...Kevin Howe Feb. 15--Erosion of Elkhorn Slough is gradually converting it from an estuary to...according to a report by scientists studying the slough. Less sediment is flowing into the slough from streams, and more is flowing out, said...
- Slough Estates PLC
- Reference information from: International Directory of Company Histories January 1, 2003 700+ words
...later Sir), founder of the Slough Trading Company as well as...nearly half the population of Slough, were employed in repairing...shops, other plants, and offices had already been built by the...Hygienic Ice Company. The site at Slough was ideal for such consumer...
- Slough Estates plc
- Reference information from: International Directory of Company Histories January 1, 1991 700+ words
...later Sir), founder of the Slough Trading Company as well as...nearly half the population of Slough, were employed in repairing...Machine shops, other plant, and offices had already been built by the...Hygienic Ice Company. The site at Slough was ideal for such consumer...
- URBAN OASIS MERCER SLOUGH OFFERS QUIET RESPITE AMID THE CONCRETE...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Johnston, Greg August 12, 1999 700+ words
...wasn't for the tops of office buildings poking above...while canoeing Mercer Slough Nature Park. Great blue...At one point, the slough circles an office building built on wetlands...pleasant paddle. The slough offers two to three miles...
- Eagles' plans exclude Slough: The veteran Franklin Co. baseball coach is unsure...
- Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA) September 2, 2007 700+ words
...after 14 years on the job. Slough kept his position as strength...the Eagles 20 years ago. Slough said he was summoned in early August to the office of principal Deb Decker...contract because, according to Slough, she said the school board...
- Columbia Slough slowly sheds waterway's dirty image in Portland, Ore.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News July 26, 2004 700+ words
...remembers an old saying about the Columbia Slough: If you got into paddling trouble on the...other kayakers and canoeists who paddled the slough Sunday afternoon for the 10th Annual Columbia Slough Regatta can vouch for how far the waterway...
- Postcode fight as Windsor tries to slough.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Demetriou, Danielle January 23, 2003 700+ words
...the hit TV comedy The Office. But now Slough has received the ultimate...and Jags brigade". Slough, however, has a somewhat...different reputation. In The Office, it is frequently ridiculed...Gervais. Last summer, Slough borough council launched...
- Farming Tops List Of Stress On Slough.
- Newspaper article from: Monterey County Herald (Monterey, CA) September 15, 2006 700+ words
...Byline: Kevin Howe Sep. 15--Elkhorn Slough "is not pristine, and we don't ever...coordinator of a management plan for the slough, told a small group that gathered at the Elkhorn Slough Natural Estuarine Research Reserve near...