Maier is like hundreds of others at the winter meetings, another eager applicant seeking a job in the front office of a professional baseball team.

They have long waiting lists of applicants eager to join those already commuting from poorer wards.

A number of the eager applicants dismissed an age limit as unnecessary given the tests already administered to gauge performance.

It has been mocked as a meaningless gesture to stave off eager applicants and assuage the Russians.

The city expanded the knowledge of reading, riding, 'rithmetic and other subjects demanded of applicants eager to pilot yellow cabs through Manhattan (and sometimes other boroughs).

The line of eager applicants stretched for many blocks.

Only when she asked to see it again did she learn there were not, as she had been told, a dozen eager applicants.

Although we have a waiting list of eager applicants," she said, "we only have the funds to train a class of 10 people in our current 15-week session.

That merited a dismissive sideways glance from Mr. Trump, who was glad-handing the throng of eager, smartly dressed applicants, mostly in their 20's and 30's.

That's easy in New York, where the challenge was winnowing down the pool of eager applicants.