Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeff, who quit the graduate program in international affairs at American University to help out Grandma's Cookies, adds, "I'd like to make enough to be comfortable but I can't work for a boss at the State Department." David, who has participated in every step of creating Grandma's from baking to marketing, also says, "I feel like a part of it; I'm not just working to make someone else money. We have to work hard up in Vermont, but it's not an assembly line...
Leonard Matthews works long hours every day, but today he is more aggravated than usual. He's just had to fire new help he'd hired only three days ago, and that means Daphne has to get up earlier than usual to help him with the early shift. "People are so unreliable you can't trust them to do the work," he fumes. "They believe in just turning an egg and that...
Matthews is also frustrated by his inability to help change his surroundings; he can't, for example, renovate his building because it doesn't belong to him and might get torn down at any moment. More importantly, he hates the deterioration he sees around him in Roxbury...
Isham now works as a student representative to Save the Children, which promotes nutritional information, agricultural training and research, education, physical improvements and legal help for children in 19 countries throughout the world. Save the Children now sends 82 per cent of its budget directly to charitable causes...
...concerned with a decline in University support for the cultural center," Angela Belgrave '80 said after the meeting. She said the students had asked Epps to help them raise money and lend its support in other ways to the center, currently a single office in Phillips Brooks House...