Word: perks
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Though he says he racked up nearly every type of frequent flyer perk possible, the travelling grew to be too much to bear. So when Princeton came knocking on his door last year, he jumped at the offer to relocate...
...also required to attend all of the fraternity’s parties and to keep the brothers out of trouble. Garbarino says that the practice of looking out for each other is mutual: after SAE parties, one brother always walks her back to her room in Eliot. A major perk of her role as mom is that she is occasionally the only girl invited to some fraternity events. Before the club night that SAE hosted at the Matrix in Boston, for example, the fraternity held an intimate pre-party for brothers only. Garbarino was the only woman in attendance, resulting...
...bunch of blue-capped kids—some two years removed from puberty, others two seasons shy of prosperity—trot onto the field to a dull roar. Nine-year-olds with baseball mitts perk up, eagerly awaiting the chance to snag a foul ball...
...serious bad-ass and kind of scary,” says a regular, “but it’s a cool class.” Boston Sports Club has new facilities, a huge weight-room selection and built-in personal cable TVs. The biggest perk, though, is using your membership freely at all Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington locations...
Meanwhile, the global economy should start to perk up now that companies around the world have used three lean years to shed fat and restructure. Foreign stocks were hit harder and are cheaper relative to earnings potential than stocks in the U.S. "The U.S. has to turn first," says Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley, because it remains the world's leading economy. "But then Europe and Asia will move further, faster," he predicts. His favorite regions are parts of Europe--notably Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands--Hong Kong and South Korea, and emerging markets Thailand, Malaysia...