Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because Where Go Our Feet? is a dance show with relatively few words, the instructors spend a lot of time teaching the children "how to convey a feeling to the audience." Hernandez says. In the show, the Graham and Parks students perform a dance about a street gang, so "we worked on looking cool and getting that image across to the audience," she says...
...uncommon to spend four out of five potential January study hours pouring over the contents of the course catalogue, picking out an ideal spring schedule. A couple of friends and I worked out a system in which we only take Tuesday and Thursday classes--which grants us guaranteed four-day weekends and one-day "holidays" to break up each work week. All this effort was devoted to a future me who would--theoretically--lounge around campus all April long before final termpapers or last-minute cramming...
...Because once upon a time spring was fun. After graduation I figure it will be fun once again. But in college, April--face it, May isn't spring, it's examination season--has to serve as both spring and summer for students, who disperse after finals to spend unreal summers with unreal companions...
...keeping prices low, others concentrate on providing good service. Sales at Nordstrom, a Western chain with an exceptional reputation for attentiveness to customer needs, rose 18% last year, while profits surged 26%. Noting that success, a host of companies are making fresh efforts to upgrade service. Neiman-Marcus will spend $20 million this year to improve its gift-wrapping and other customer-service operations. Castner Knott, a Nashville-based chain, has deployed "sales specialists," who are trained to be familiar with the merchandise in large areas of a store rather than just small sections. They roam the departments looking...
...other end of the market, for people with less time to plan and less money to spend, Fairchild Publications offers Travel Today!, which debuted this winter on East Coast newsstands as an instant, if uncritical, source of news on cheap airfares, hotel rates, package tours and where to spend a long weekend just about anyplace in the world. With its short deadline and weekly frequency, the magazine sacrifices some of the gloss common in the field in order to have the latest information for the fast-growing ranks of short-trip takers and long weekenders...