11.   For example, if you had to make an important phone call that might help you escape kidnappers, would you be waving a gun at a hotel clerk?

12.   He will tell hotel clerks that his name is Steve Austin, a.k.a. the Six Million Dollar Man.

13.   He worked as an elevator operator, a hotel clerk and a waiter, then sold an article to Esquire magazine.

14.   Hotel clerks on other Bahamian islands said many guests left early Sunday on planes to the U.S. mainland.

15.   Hotel clerks know them by name, airlines adore them.

16.   I tried to ask the hotel clerk if she could check with the cab company.

17.   If the Knicks and Trail Blazers somehow reach the finals, pity the poor hotel clerk who has to tell them to keep it down.

18.   In between, there was a three-year stint working as a hotel clerk and reading about SETI and sociobiology.

19.   Local hotel clerks and tourist bureaus know about these, and they should be asked for a schedule.

20.   Miller told me that one night in Whitesburg, Ky., a couple of men from Harlan County asked the hotel clerk where Arnold Miller was.