Word: perks
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...carpool for half of the gas used on any given trip.For now, Shiftan, Corker, and a few investors are funding this part of the service. Once the service is available on a widespread scale, participating employers must pay a monthly fee so their employees can use GOOSE as a perk. Shiftan, who concentrated in Computer Science at Harvard, wrote the code for GOOSE and created the company’s website, www.readysetgoose.com.“I haven’t slept much since April,” Shifton said.Corker, too, said he has not had much free time...
...Kathleen Taylor where she wants to travel next, and she has a laundry list ready: South Africa, Russia, Australia. Maybe it's the complimentary stays in the lap of luxury Taylor is guaranteed as the Four Seasons' new head of global business and hotel operations--a perk that should explain an average tenure of 17 years among company managers. But more likely, it's the sense of wonderment at the world that Taylor, 49, brings to her job. Describing new hotels in China, India and Italy, she gushes. Explaining why Four Seasons still builds new properties in the volatile Middle...
...guide fandango requires careful choreography, so read on for our rules of study guide etiquette. 1. Leadership. If you are the study group organizer, you still should do some work. It is, however, perfectly acceptable to give yourself and your friends less reading than others. Justify it as a perk for all the hard work you’ll be doing copying and pasting all those summaries into one document. 2. Brevity. A summary should be a SUMMARY. Writing a novel is annoying, not impressive. 3. Promptness. It is acceptable to hand your summaries in a little late. Don?...
...fact that they discuss merry subjects such as delinquency and self-injury. There’s nothing like a presentation on bulimia to brighten your day, eh? Assignments are minimal and include keeping a short journal (tip: listen to Britney Spears' super-hit Dear Diary for inspiration). The biggest perk of the two required papers is that students have enormous freedom: you can analyze Napoleon Dynamite, a teen self-help book, or even your experience observing resumé-padding high school kids working at a soup kitchen. Don't bank on an easy A, though, for despite...
...media converter also formats and transfers photographs for slideshows. Like the video player, it's a nice perk although it's limited on such a small screen. I wanted to copy full-size pictures directly, making it a useful device for carrying and displaying pictures, but I was foiled in the attempt. It turns out, you can load photos only through a media converter...