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...looking for opportunities in the non-profit sector, this year's Career Forum offers some possibilities. It is true that the Forum is comprised mainly of for-profit companies. Traditionally, the non-profit agency, due to its small staff and budget, is unable to spare either the personnel or the money to attend such an event. As a result, the Forum takes on a rather "corporate" feel...

Author: By Scott Atherton, | Title: Public Service at the Forum | 10/21/1988 | See Source »

...same goes for lighthouses. Automation, they told me, is far more efficient, and safer as well. But they didn't want to see their town's history disappear, and so they devote their spare time to working on Thacher Island...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Saving Beacons of History | 10/20/1988 | See Source »

...throng of obnoxious vendors hawking baseball cards and t-shirts, there is a ragged-looking, old Irish priest who holds out a tamborine asking for spare change...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Red Sox Rites and Rituals | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...bringing back Sasso, Dukakis was careful to spare Estrich's feelings at the cost of the bureaucratic coherence of the campaign. Instead of reassigning some of the top staff as the effort expanded, Sasso just worked around them, relying on new, more seasoned hands that he recruited. As a result, there are in effect two campaign hierarchies: the paper structure and the de facto one reporting to Sasso. Even though Baker might blanch at such chain-of-command chaos, a tendency to paper over personnel problems is typical of presidential campaigns but can be near fatal in a President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's The Year Of the Handlers | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...beside the million-dollar developments; the high-rises tower over the ghettos. It is hard for those who trip on a beggar as they leave a restaurant, where they may have just spent more on a meal than some people earn in a week, to claim that they cannot spare some change. The question, rather, is, Should they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Begging: To Give or Not to Give | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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