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...standard for destination clubs, Distinctive Retreats, based in Westport, Conn., refunded most of Hariri's money (80% is typical) when he resigned. Since then, "we have worked out the kinks," says Rob McGrath, CEO of Tanner & Haley Resorts, owner of the club, which has begun leasing properties to meet demand in popular destinations like Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and Kiawah Island...
...Elizabeth Schlier, 37, a former member of Private Retreats, also owned by Tanner & Haley. "The towels and other linens were not as plush, and there weren't always enough toys for my children." Says McGrath: "When we were renting properties on a short-term basis to meet increased consumer demand, we would have inconsistent quality. But now we have satisfied client demand and offer consistency...
...citizens out of poverty, and despite bold investments in renewables, much of that energy will have to come from coal, the only traditional energy source they have in abundance. Barbara Finamore, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's China Clean Energy Program, estimates that China's total electricity demand will increase by 2,600 gigawatts by 2050, which is the equivalent of adding four 300-megawatt power plants every week for the next 45 years. India's energy consumption rose 208% from 1980 to 2001, even faster than China's, but nearly half the population still lacks regular access...
...It’s a challenge that every movement like this has faced—in any sort of push for non discrimination, you start with a group that by definition isn’t protected. It makes it very difficult for that group to openly or vocally demand certain things,” says Thoreson.The more palpable effect, though, is that without an open transgendered community, few students to understand exactly what the word transgender even means.Taktin M. Oey ’08, for example, says that he only vaguely understands that a transgendered individual...
...safe and healthy working environment which is free of discrimination.” Hiscox and Smyth found that sales increased dramatically for the labeled products. Even more surprisingly, consumers kept buying the products even as prices went up. “It did surprise me that demand for the labeled products was so strong and price inelastic,” Hiscox wrote in an e-mail. “It was not just that people bought more of the goods once they were labeled, but they bought even more when we raised prices by 10 percent and still more when...