Word: pinings
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...Crimson women hope to demonstrate their improvement this weekend at the beautiful Oyster Harbors Gold Course for the Boston College Invitational tomorrow and Sunday. Though the women will look for a strong finish this weekend, the tournament is merely a chance to prepare for the Ivy League Championships at Pine Barrens in New Jersey in less than two weeks. Though Princeton and Yale remain formidable opponents, Laine and company hope for some momentum to propel them to a strong finish against their Ivy rivals...
...dual bottom line was the challenge for Lisa Schorr when she signed on with Pine Street Inn as director of business-enterprise development. PSI, New England's largest nonprofit for the homeless, provides shelters and services for 11,000 people a day, many of them considered hard-core unemployable. A program that offered job training and supplied used clothing to the homeless had inadequate funding. Schorr, who had just received her M.B.A. from Harvard, came up with a plan to expand PSI's work and make it financially self-sufficient. "The idea," she says, "was to kill two birds with...
Looking at Pine Street from a manager's point of view, Schorr saw an underutilized resource. PSI had no means of sorting all the clothing, and half of it was being sold off cheaply in bulk. The program was costing the organization $200,000 a year more than it got under a contract with the commonwealth. Her analysis showed that by training Pine Street's men and women to sort the clothing by size and type, the donations could be more efficiently distributed and provide high-quality merchandise for the agency's two thrift shops. Since the summer...
Obviously, some pastimes lose something when performed online. (No, I'm not going to talk about sex.) Consider hiking. True, you could don your head-mounted display and get on your treadmill while a friend did the same in another city. If you wanted a whiff of pine or cedar, you could crank up the computer-controlled aroma synthesizer that the company DigiScents has said it will market. Not too tempting, right...
...daughter, or her daughter's daughter, will mist over at the memory of the androgen-swollen, coach-garroting, endorsement-besotted free agent ridiculing his teammates after a tough loss. Like today's purists who long for the bunt, the pick-and-roll and touch tennis, they too will pine for the good old days...