Word: med
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1960s the very name Club Med brought forth images of suntanned, beautiful single people cavorting on beach blankets over wine and under moonlight. Then when the original clientele grew older and got married, Club Med added day-care facilities for children and shifted the recreational emphasis from scuba diving to golf and tennis. Now Paris-based Club Mediterranee Group, the world's largest seller of packaged holiday fun, is in the midst of its most radical departure yet: an all-out campaign to lure corporate clients to its 95 villages in 25 countries in all the balmy parts...
With all the marketing savvy of a Hilton or Sheraton, Club Med is urging companies to take over villages for conferences and as sales-incentive rewards to employees. Frenchman Gilbert Trigano, 65, hardly talks like a man who flirted with Communism before he founded Club Med. Now the organization's president, he says that "we make a special effort for corporations. They are especially precious...
Renault, the French automaker, rents a village for nine weeks each year so that 17,000 of its workers can stay for a few days or more. France's Total, a petroleum refiner and marketer, takes about 650 people a year to a Club Med as a plum for good performance. Says Philippe Morot, a Total executive: "It is remarkable what work gas-station managers will do to win." Other corporate clients have included Japan's Sony and Nikon, as well as Harley-Davidson and Pizza Hut from the U.S. Trigano plans to step up efforts to attract American companies...
...people in my pre-med courses know me primarily as a student, and when they find out that I'm captain of the baseball team, they're very surprised. And then the guys on the baseball team were really surprised I was premed--they said the reason they kept me on the team was to bolster the team grade-point average...
...med school now, and I have no regrets about that. Actually, it will make it easier because now I don't have a decision to make...