Word: tailorization
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Websites like Classmates and Reunion.com are tailor-made tools in this quest for another chance at romance with a school-day ex. These cybersubstitutes for the class reunion offer millions of members access to former classmates who have registered on the sites. They entice recruits looking for love to join with testimonials from reunited couples...
...numbers of adult children are taking them on special vacations. The most successful, those travelers say, are geared to fulfilling the parents' desires, whether it's a trip they've always wanted to make or an experience they've never even imagined. Those journeys work best when all participants tailor expectations to such realities as how much a parent can comfortably do and the kind of relationship parent and child have with each other. New York City psychologist Karen Zager suggests preparing coping strategies in advance of the trip to avoid old conflicts that can resurface with 24/7 togetherness...
...parental leave guidelines and requiring that each school have a written policy, Hammonds says. According to Mansbridge, the new policy automatically grants a semester of paid teaching relief to new parents, responding to concerns that childcare policies were not well-publicized or automatically applied, she adds.Each school may tailor these minimum guidelines to satisfy its needs. Mansbridge, who served on the Task Force on Women Faculty last year, said that the Task Force found it difficult to set central policy.“I might have been hoping for more centralized control, but I wasn’t aware...
...same balance. A lot of the coaches are European and from the Communist bloc and have a very different attitude about it.”Cross adds that Brand “really tries to work with” the fencers in terms of other commitments as well and tailor their schedules around them.“He’s very supportive of me missing some non-essential meets for individual competitions,” she says. “He’s very much a part of the team—he’s an authority...
...Sorrentino's inspiration is the Grimm tale of Rumpelstiltskin, the dwarf whose skill as a tailor (he could spin straw into gold) ensnared a greedy miller and his beautiful young daughter. Here the miller is a middle-class man over hid head in debts for the wedding of his daughter Rosalba (glamorous, poised Laura Chiatti). Geremia lends the family more money than they can afford to pay and then, on the wedding day, extracts from Rosalba his own predatory pound-of-flesh interest on the loan...