bolter
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Fortunately, A Good Used Book had positive meetings with Verve’s regional manager, Alexis Bolter, as well as a strong “business-mentor type” relationship with Matt Moreno, the manager of Verve’s Arts District location.
From Los Angeles Times
The virtues of the novel, especially in its early chapters, when Fanny and Linda are still children, are its briskness and the poker-faced savagery of its humor, as Fanny lovingly but mercilessly details the foibles of the Radletts: Uncle Matthew the patriarch, spewing xenophobia and railing against the education of girls; young Jassy, modeled on Nancy’s sister Jessica, who obsessively saves her pennies so that she can eventually run away; Fanny’s mother, known only as the Bolter because she flees one husband after another.
From New York Times
Mortimer casts herself as the Bolter, in a role whose expansion has no obvious point beyond increasing our sympathy for Fanny.
From New York Times
“Setting out clear and accurate information about how and who might get in might lead to fewer migrants making the trip, so there’s not this game of chance that kind of seems to be in place right now,” Bolter said.
From Seattle Times
“It has been murky,” said Jessica Bolter, an analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute who believes the administration is trying to quietly be humane without encouraging more people to come, a balancing act she doubts will succeed.
From Seattle Times
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