For decades the process has worked something like this: A floor manager at a booth relays an order to a floor broker.

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If, for example, only 55 of a state's 60 votes are recorded in the columns, the five remaining would be automatically cast in the 'Not Voting' category and sent to the floor manager.

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Students can turn what could be a loose proxy for smarts and responsibility, say for example, an Associates degree in English, into a strong signal and skills-based orientation that tells the retailer that the individual has not only the talent, but intention, to be a floor-manager at a big box retailer.

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For now the 31-year-old plant manager is content to lord over a factory floor of Vermeer Manufacturing Co. in Pella, Iowa, pointing to a directional drill assembly line that used to be cluttered with 20 days' worth of parts inventory.

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The encouragement from my manager to get that perspective, from the ground floor, has stuck with me over time in my career.

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The company's marketing manager, Lukman, watched from his office on the second floor as the soldiers asked rioters to line up for merchandise.

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"It wasn't about women asking to not be around men, " says General Manager Patrick Davidson of the hotel's decision last year to reserve one entire floor for women guests.

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In the lounge, with its grand piano and dance floor, a half-dozen residents were gathered for a pow-wow with the dining services manager, discussing the pros and cons of taking fruit up to their room.

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Michael "Interdictor" Barnett is "crisis manager" for DirectNIC, a Web-hosting and co-location center occupying the tenth floor of a downtown New Orleans office building.

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