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...Last Five Years”) and composed the music for this years’ Hasty Pudding Theatrical.Jennifer L. Brown ’07, who has worked with Musico on 11 productions, praises his ability to direct music.“Mark doesn’t just plunk a piano,” she says. “He’s really interested in getting a performance out of performers.”Musico’s view of music stems largely from his studies, he says. As a Philosophy concentrator on the Mind, Brain and Behavior track...
...among them Fortune 500 CEOs and team owners like Richard Childress, who spent their time in suites and luxury trailers. But the most telling sign that NASCAR is outgrowing its good-ole-boy, moonshine-running roots was the spectators in the Nextel Fan Zone, who didn't hesitate to plunk down $50 a bottle for a limited edition commemorative cabernet merlot etched with a Daytona Speedway logo...
...stop. I'm back with Barbara Pachter for a one-on-one coaching session a few weeks later at her stylish home office in Cherry Hill, N.J. If you are a voluntary visitor to Pachter's studio, it means your employer cares enough about you and your future to plunk down more than $3,000 to smooth your rough edges. But if you appear via corporate command to what has been called charm school, you are probably in manners trouble. Sometimes bosses use Pachter to deliver embarrassing news, like the caution to the female executive who was wearing...
Destination clubs, in which you plunk down a sizable deposit and pay an annual fee for access to luxury resort homes around the world, aren't the bargains they once were. Many are raising fees and dues, and some are shedding properties and initiating stricter reservation systems. And in the wake of a July bankruptcy filing by Tanner & Haley, the industry pioneer, the possibility of losing your privileges and your entire deposit has come front and center...
...although 29% of consumers in the youngest group said they would be willing to spend up to $5,000 for a set, the older groups clung tighter to their wallets. Only 17% of the middle-agers and 15% of those 59 or older said they felt ready to plunk down that kind of money...