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...Italian Restaurant in Cambridge, neatness and tastefulness are the important criteria. "An applicant for a position in the dining room must be very neatly groomed--his clothes, his shoes, his hands, his hair," says owner Dom A Capossela. What kind of clothing an applicant wears isn't so important, out "it must be tasteful and stylish...
Jimmy Lewis, owner of Elite Limousine Service in Boston, says applicants there must wear "a three-piece black suit, a sharp white collar, a solid black tie, and very well polished black shoe s. They must have short hair, preferably not have a beard or moustache, and their suit must be very, very, sharp." While the may sound like an awful lot of dressing up. Lewis says that this is basically what a chauffeur wears...
CLOCKS AND CALENDARS. Also selling well these days are some low-cost packages that equip personal computers with electronic versions of the aids found on conventional desktops: clocks, calendars, calculators, note pads, Rolodexes. Software that allows a PC owner to check the time, look up an address or remember an important luncheon appointment has been available for years. But switching from a clock to a Rolodex usually means shutting down one program and starting up another--a laborious exercise that generally is more trouble than it is worth. The key to these handy new programs is that they...
...Lest the owner fear that an inexperienced mariner will run his vessel up on the nearest rocks, the charter firms ask renters to fill out detailed personal history forms and provide references attesting to their sailing skills. Sometimes they must also demonstrate their knowledge of the yacht they will use. "Look out for the guy wearing new Topsiders," says David Gegg, owner of Sail Belize charters in Belize City. The operators all retain the right to put a professional skipper aboard (at an extra cost of about $65 per day) as an added precaution. Most charter firms keep a "chase...
...alternative to Prince and Madonna," says Program Director Greg Fast. "We don't play trashy lyrics or tell dirty jokes. We give you fun and good clean songs without hitting you over the head with the Bible." So successful has the 24-hour, all-Christian format been that Owner Paul Toberty is currently converting his stations in Denver and Phoenix. The South, where old-fashioned gospel music still prevails on the religous stations, has been the most resistant to evangelical pop, but the movement is beginning to catch on there...