Word: planner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...call center in Bangalore, India, can sell someone a loan. But would people entrust all aspects of their financial future to someone they have never met? In the offshoring game, the need for a relationship gives the personal financial planner an edge. Planners look for more than just data. They need to scope out a client's priorities. "A person may mention that his family didn't help support his college tuition," says Elizabeth Jetton, an Atlanta-based planner who has met each of her 65 clients in person, "and you notice he starts fidgeting. That body language alone tells...
What’s more, some of the possible topics for discussion the planner suggests are food and the weather. And this is all intended to get students to learn about race, culture, and ethnicity...
While encouraging Harvard students to walk up to any random student at any random moment, the planner’s writers seem terrified of us meeting someone who doesn’t attend Harvard. The planner states, “Never invite a person whom you have met on the street, in a bar, or in another public place back to your room.” Following this logic would negate one of the main reasons for going to Harvard: the H-Bomb. How else is a Harvard guy supposed to get some action if he can?...
Then there are the national days the planner chose to recognize. Interestingly, National Depression Screening Day is followed by World Smile Day, because there’s no better way to get out of a funk than following the advice of a wacky holiday...
...planner is a wonderful creation. It is useful, and it will open dialogue on many important and unimportant issues. And when worse comes to worse and Harvard students are really bored, we can always turn to it for a chuckle (Preferably on April 14. That’s International Moment of Laughter...