Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through with the plan, and some of his friends who had been helping him moved on to other things, so Georges stopped working on it. "I was stuck with the lists of people, the interested publishers, and 75 write-ups of schools, but I did nothing with it that summer," Georges says...
Last June Georges and Messina began the project in earnest and Georges and his sister Gigi spent the entire summer working on it. The two updated the entries Georges already had, found volunteers to write others, and interviewed alumni for entries on the remaining schools...
...trio worked out of a summer house on Long Island and then in Brooklyn, where the Georges reside. They spent up to 14 hours a day, six days a week working on the book on two Macintosh computers. "With 150 write-ups done by different people, all with different writing styles, the publishers wanted lots of style revisions. We also edited to make them accurate, interesting, entertaining, and non-libelous," Georges says...
Georges says that he received money approximate to the salary of "a good summer job." He adds, "But it wasn't done for the money--all revenues were originally planned to go to the Crimson." The Independent will put their share towards upgrading their technology, Yarowsky says...
Congress is expected to decide on a jointbudget resolution by April 15. The resolution willthen act as a guide when the Senate and Houseappropriations committees thrash out actualspending legislation during the summer and fall...