Word: friend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the Canadians were well ahead of Doyle, he battled for third place with a good friend of his from St. Petersburg, Fla., Brad Funk from Old Dominion. It came down to the last race between the two Americans, which Doyle won by two points...
...your accommodations, arranging everything from a baby's crib to a play group and baby-sitter, from access to a car to the use of a weekend retreat. Your swap family may also be willing to feed your cat and walk your dog. It's helpful to have a friend or neighbor meet your guests and show them the basics: how to use the vcr, where the vacuum cleaner is. You'll want them to do the same on their end. If you want to dive wholesale into the local culture, you can also ask to meet their English-speaking...
...follow a planned visit to their grown children in Boston with a vacation in Vermont. They contacted a Colorado woman, Joanna Lyn Merriman, who had a second home in Vermont. The timing wasn't convenient for Merriman, who banked the swap and eventually transferred her "credit" to her best friend, whose husband was in the last stages of cancer. "They stayed 10 days," Jan Omans recalls, "and after he died, his wife wrote that her husband had wanted us to know what a good feeling he had on that trip. This goes beyond vacationing," Jan says, "to good hearts...
...references from others with whom they have stayed. Of the very few problems he has seen in the 10 years he has run HomeLink, Karl Costabel says, "most of them are trivial." To avoid worry, Costabel recommends locking up valuable or fragile items or taking them to a friend's house. "We have had no lawsuits in 10 years," says Intervac's Lori Horne, "and the few complaints we've got relate mostly to housekeeping differences. We never hear of theft or trashing...
...Rubin's public-sector resume may not be complete. He's already a leading candidate to replace his friend Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve when Greenspan's term expires next June. Who knows? Before long, the metal detector could again become a thing of the past...