Word: planner
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...Part of that return to normal is driven by a return to reasonable lending: people aren't buying more than they can afford to because banks won't let them. When the Robertses first met with mortgage planner Iva Deobald last year, she told them to go away, pay down their credit-card and student-loan debt and then come back with a better set of financials. Deobald says, "I'm back to what I used...
Exchange sites recommend that swappers discuss such matters ahead of time. Randle Griggs, a retired financial planner in Tempe, Ariz., who has participated in more than 20 domestic and international home exchanges since 1996, always asks swappers to fill out an agreement spelling out who shoulders which responsibilities should a problem arise. "I'm not sure if the agreement would hold up in court, but at least it gives you a little satisfaction," he said...
...Pentagon for a while. In the mid-1980s, the Air Force launched the short-lived Air Defense Initiative, designed to shoot down Soviet cruise missiles launched toward the U.S. "It's an embryonic program that addresses threats that will exist by the late 1990s," a top Air Force planner said in 1986. Five years later, of course, the Soviet Union collapsed. But that threat - while it has yet to materialize - still lives on in the toolbox of those pressing Congress to spend real money to fight hypothetical threats...
...strenuous mountain hiking above the tree line - its elevation dips to 124 ft. in New York and climbs to 6,625 ft. in Tennessee, at the top of Clingmans Dome in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The trail was the brainchild of Benton MacKaye, a New England regional planner who published the idea in 1921. He originally envisioned wilderness communities along the trail where visitors could stop and renew themselves in a natural setting. Hikers and outdoors enthusiasts embraced the idea for the trail and promptly started building. The first portion was opened in New York...
...balmy days of summer, wedding season has arrived - and with it, an onslaught of bachelor parties. With an estimated 2.2 million weddings in the U.S. each year, providing for the groom's send-off is big business. Dozens of websites cater to the needs of the bachelor-party planner (typically, the groom's best man). I-Volution Inc., which owns two of the largest bachelor-party sites on the Web, says its websites get about 4 million visitors a year - 35% of whom focus on the Las Vegas packages. Just witness the success of the hit film The Hangover, whose...