On a salesperson's first day on the job at one of Best Buy's 759 stores he or she gets a four-hour classroom session that focuses on the required goals, how to fit into the store's sales force and the basics for giving the customer a happy experience.
It doesn't seem much to ask that other journalists -- and why not also political leaders and willing members of the public -- should stop for a minute's silence on one day each year, May the third, to pay tribute and reflect on the courage of those who have died for our right to know.
Fight For This Love sold more copies on its first day than Alexandra Burke's single Bad Boys - the current UK number one - did on its first day last week.
He has a goal to his name too, hitting one on Shrewsbury's opening-day win over Burton last month.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson recently commented that all of China's U.S. treasury bond holdings represent less than one day's volume of trading on global bond markets.
He finished the meeting on a high, too, with victory on the late Lord Weinstock's Islington in the Group One Vodafone Nassau Stakes on the final day.
And he will instead help to start a rebuilding process at Prenton Park as Rovers, who missed out on the League One play-offs thanks to Scunthorpe's late goal on the final day of the season, prepare for another assault on promotion to the Championship.
Coldplay top the list with their 2003 track Clocks, ahead of Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor and Elbow's One Day Like This.
But that was a "very crude calculation, " Mr. Tombs says in an interview, based on the subtraction of one work day's output, or about 1.5% of the quarter's total, from the calendar.
The same science that grew an ear on a rodent's dorsal could one day save the 6, 200 people in the U.S. who die every year awaiting transplants of organs like the liver, heart and lung.
Had DRS been in use on day one at Lord's, Cook might have been given a reprieve if he had referred Asoka da Silva's verdict, although I have every sympathy with the Sri Lankan umpire.
Some of those training at Bordeaux's school and pumping iron on the beach may one day make it onto the professional wrestling circuit, earning the right to wear the wrestler's traditional pre-fight regalia.
The Group Two King's Stand Stakes takes place on the opening day of Royal Ascot next Tuesday with the Group One Golden Jubilee Sprint featuring on the fifth and final day's racing on Saturday.
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"If mail's on the truck, it's the highlight of the day, " one Marine said, as he tossed water bottles under the hot sun.
The service allows cash to be withdrawn by a worker's family in the Philippines on the same day he or she deposits the money at one of Metrobank's online terminals abroad.
If GM does fail in the U.S., it is quite possible that its operations on other continents can continue and one day provide the money to restart GM's business in the States.
He added that Lord Morison had only done one day's work on the bench during this financial year.
Greece and Turkey nearly went to war over one rocky outcrop on Mr Simitis's first day in office, in January 1996.
The reason that this is important, again, is that Senator Clinton, I think, fairly, has claimed that she's got the experience on day one.
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Indeed, one day's work on upcoming projects, which include a movie installment of "24" and the Coen brothers' inaugural foray into TV, will see him discussing topics that span Formula 1 racing and Mormon fundamentalism in the '80s.
See now, that's what Barack faced on day one as President. (Applause.) But instead of pointing fingers or placing blame, Barack got to work, because he was thinking about folks like my dad and like his grandmother.
Larry on the company's 20 Percent Time policy, which lets employees work one day a week or so on their own projects or whatever they want.
Gloucestershire captain Mark Alleyne, who lifted the NatWest Trophy on Sunday - his second piece of Lord's silverware inside a month, makes the one-day list after missing out on the World Cup.
By contrast, left-hander Lyth's maiden one-day century on his home ground, 109 not out off 95 balls, was more sedate.
With Australia having exposed India's limitations in the field on day one, new batsman Watson served notice of his intentions by pushing the first ball of the day for a quick single.
One of my favorite movies is "Waiting for Guffman, " Christopher Guest's sardonic yet ultimately hopeful 1997 comedy about the fictional small town of Blaine, Missouri, and its against-all-odds attempt to put on a one-day musical for the town's 150th birthday.
For Sony's Hummel, who has seen concession-stand boys handle film prints with buttery fingers as dirt and dust collect on the movie reel, "better" means a picture that is as scratch-free and crisp at the end of a movie's run as it looked on day one.
The spokesman added that the remaining three pieces - two large scale works called One Summer's Day We Went on a Trip to New Brighton and We Have Arrived at Central Station and a "small, rather unusual painting" entitled Miss, said the Policeman, 'And where be you going at this time of night' - would be shown at a later date.
MPs devote one day a year to discussing Welsh affairs, with this year's debate falling on St David's Day.
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