Word: takings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People get excited about the UC [during the campaign]," says current council President Noah Z. Seton '00. "People take interest in it, and the voter turnout is high...
...Last night's loss] is especially difficult to take because we competed well in the foil and epee against both MIT and now Brandeis," Brand said. "But if you lose 8-1 or 7-2 in the sabre, you're dead...
...After dinner, Mike (the Canadian techie) takes the wheel of the rental car. We are on the way back to the hotel. Six minutes later, he announces that we are lost. His attempt to take a more efficient route had failed. "It didn't make sense to go south first when we want to go north," he explains. Tom informs me that riding in a car driven by a consultant is not always the best idea, since they have a strange propensity for fender-benders. Not only do consultant drivers want to get where they're going as fast...
...team members see PRTM's "sunny days" policy as an important counterweight to their demanding travel schedules. This policy allows firm employees who are away from home an average of four days a week to take every other Friday off. It's an important tool for recruiting and retention; as Tom puts it, "the choice between family and work is a no-brainer--so why make people choose?" When I say that four days of travel per week still doesn't seem normal, they argue that they "don't work on weekends" as do many consultants and most investment bankers...
...kinds of music, within dance music, as I can. It's a little bit more involved than you might think, other than just going up there and playing recorded music or music that I myself have recorded before and am playing. It's more than that; I hope to take people on some kind of a journey, so that it has a beginning, a middle and an end, rather than just playing one song or another...