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Worried that reunion events would cater to straight married couples and their children, some gay and lesbian alumni have stayed away from their class reunions in past years. Realizing this, the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) began almost 10 years ago to organize events for gay and lesbian alumni during reunions, according to HGLC President Thomas H. Parry ’74. Once reunions included these events, a greater number of gay and lesbian alumni felt more comfortable attending their reunions, Parry says.Since 2000, alumni groups have expanded beyond the HGLC to include groups based on ethnic or religious...
...acquire its middle-class rhythms and rituals; a proper dining room became a Victorian aspiration. When children were 8 or 9, they were allowed to join the adults at the table for instruction in proper etiquette. By the turn of the century, restaurants had appeared to cater to clerical workers, and in time, eating out became a recreational sport. Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes...
...achieve the level of quality its listeners expected. And though the station had to raise several thousand dollars to purchase the new technology, the greater listening audience allowed WHRB to increase its advertising rates.WHRB’s leadership continued to repeatedly stress that the station would still cater to the Harvard community.“Even with FM,” Andrew told The Crimson, “we’ll still emphasize—and be geared to the tastes of—Harvard. We just hope the other 250,000 people who can listen...
...lower prices. Instead, they suggested that greater value online came from consumers having access to a wider selection of products and services. The key for businesses hoping to capitalize on the long tail, says Carnegie Mellon's Michael D. Smith, one of the paper's authors, is to cater to "significant heterogeneity in taste." Even though a majority of us may like U2 on our MP3 players, for example, there are enough of us who enjoy string quartets or British ska to make it profitable for those who sell them...
...think your online audience will be very different, and what might you have to do to cater to that crowd? One reason I'm doing this is the fact that the Amazon audience is my audience--it's a big bookstore, after all. As far as catering to online, I've never really catered on TV. I don't know why I should start on the computer...