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...Chrysler alone, nearly 200,000 jobs are at risk. If the bankruptcies ripple out to suppliers in the event that a judge voids some of their receivables, another several thousand jobs could be at stake. Then there are several amorphous estimates about people who work in fields related to the car companies. That could be industries as diverse as restaurants in Detroit and airline that fly there. It is probably safe to say that close to a million jobs are in jeopardy if the two car companies lose their independence. (See pictures of Detroit's decline...
Harvard students hold many social events on campus, and there is a lot of competition between us to organize fun and well-attended parties. We try to make the flashiest poster and the catchiest name. Every Monday and Thursday, we compete with other student-group representatives to promote our events, hoping to make our advertisement the most iconic image on campus for the week. However, it seems that, despite all the energy spent in event publicity, we put too little thought into the kinds of images and words that we use and how they affect the entire Harvard culture...
...train at the Casino Pool - the first Olympic-size swimming pool in Florida. In 1938, sensing a marketing opportunity, the city hosted the first College Coaches' Swim Forum at the Casino Pool; according to one source, by 1938 more than 300 swimmers were competing at the event, and a bacchanal was born. The tradition of college swimmers traipsing to Florida in droves continued well into the swinging 60s. TIME first highlighted spring break in an April 1959 article titled "Beer & the Beach" ("It's not that we drink so much," noted one attendee, "it's that we drink...
...Then again, conference organizer Roger Liddle had warned against expecting too much from the event. "It is about establishing a consensus," he said before the talks began. "This isn't an occasion where we're going to get very specific and detailed policies...
Beers & Brats. To encourage its guests to mingle, Marriott's downtown Chicago outpost on the Magnificent Mile is having a cocktail-hour "Beer & Brats" event with Wisconsin beer brewer Leinenkugel on Tuesday, April 7, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. All-you-can-eat-or-drink for just $5. Stay overnight for $159 and up. 540 North Michigan Avenue...