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...silver lining in the current economic slump is that it has forced some firms to cut back on telemarketing, just as they have on advertising. Jack Keenan, CEO of Tele Resources in Duluth, Minn., has seen a 40% drop in clients' call-volume requests and has had to cut his staff from 225 to 150 since the end of 2002. Unfortunately, though, fewer cold calls may not mean a reduction in sales pitches. Some firms offer more goods and services when you call them, be it for plane tickets, banking or Internet service...
...region was eventually developed by miners, but not the Forty-Niners. You can still find remains of a few short-lived gold, silver and copper mines in the mountains, but the real fortunes in Death Valley were made with "white gold": borax. The first big operation, the Harmony Borax Works (1883-88), led to the settlement of Furnace Creek. Borates were scraped off yellow badlands in nearby Mustard Canyon, refined by Chinese laborers and pulled 165 miles to market in Mojave on the famous 20-mule-team wagons. Remnants of the original wagons, with their giant, 7-ft.-high wheels...
...same time exquisite and emotional. In “Don’t Disappear,” McCaughan sings softly and longingly: “And in this dream we were terribly tall, wobbly and weak / And I was afraid we would fall / Impaled on dull silver mass of antennae / And I wanted to grab you, but you were so skinny...
Weld resident Jamie L. Silver ’06 updates her log daily, including so many tidbits about her personal life that reading the entire collection might just qualify the reader for citizenship in the United States of Jamie. In addition to learning that she is 4’11” (and a half), and a member of the Harvard Juggling Club and Marching Band, we get a glimpse of some more intimate aspects of her days...
...investigation. Also, we can tell that she is into big (read: portly) men such as Ruben Studdard from American Idol. “Part of it is for my friends back in Florida, so they can see what I’m doing up here,” says Silver. “It’s also a good record for me to go back and look at when I’m happy, sad or just curious what the hell I was doing at a certain time...