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...years later, the Anglo-American couple and their young son Thomas visited London on a public relations scheme hatched by the Virginia Co. Its heavily indebted investors hoped the exotic New World princess would help them drum up desperately needed capital to keep their flagging American venture afloat...
...well as undergoing a green facelift, Montmartre's streets have been fully pedestrianized on Sundays as part of the "Paris Breathes" scheme; a City Hall initiative that has banned cars from some 13 parts of the city at weekends...
...like going to an AA meeting with an open bar.With no patch or 12-step program to cure me, I was left to try to reconcile my borderline religious sports zeal with the notion that a Harvard man should be passionate about something more significant in the grand scheme of things.And to tell you the truth, it wasn’t that hard.On a personal level, sports have provided stability in my life and have given me an outlet for dealing with frustration and stress in a healthy manner. Growing up, there was no better way to release some pent...
...Purists might scoff at entrepreneurship, saying it has no place at a liberal arts college, and that undergraduates should wrestle with life’s big questions now, and later scheme how to make a quick buck...
...develop a flexible budget—not for FiCom to throw up its hands and refuse to manage its money at all. It could, for example, allocate a weekly target and set aside a small surplus fund to cover particularly large packages. Or, it could use a monthly budgeting scheme to allow for particularly high and low weeks...