Word: mascot
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...work. "It's pretty frustrating, as you can imagine," he says. Employers there thus use what's called a keep-warm strategy, in which newly approved hires are plied with informational packets, calls from executives and even small gifts for their parents (Target sends stuffed versions of its mascot, the dog Bull's Eye), before their first day of work. Appealing to workers' filial loyalty is so critical in India that some employers fly parents to headquarters for visits, and at least one is said to offer parents free Internet service. Target competes by offering health insurance to workers' parents...
...excitement it deserves when I’m interacting with freshmen. And thus, it makes me sadder to think that my last Freshman Week, three years after my first, has come to an end.Again, this isn’t a plea for vocal Harvard enthusiasm, or a real mascot, or a more full football stadium, though all of those things would be nice. Rather, I’d like to urge my fellow seniors (and probably you juniors and sophomores as well) to try to see Harvard like the freshmen do, as something that is exciting not just because...
...don’t think any team is going to be able to keep a clean sheet against us,” Hoff said. “If we can go into the half even, we are going to win the game.” True to their mascot, the Minutemen did not go down without a fight. In the waning minutes they were able to knock in a goal that robbed the Crimson of the shutout—but not the win. “It made the last couple of minutes more agonizing then they...
...decade ago). Arellano's ambitions to work illegally in the U.S. predate her status as a fugitive mother who only wants to be with her citizen son. Her case and her cause have also at times been handled inartfully - the aggressive use of her young son as a mascot for the movement at times bordered on being exploitative. And finally, as opponents of Arellano rightly point out, she could always simply get Saul to come live with her in Mexico...
...persuaded myself that pools weren't only for cartoon billionaires like Donald Trump or the Monopoly mascot. And then the contractor installing my pool introduced himself as--this is not a joke--Joe Rich...