Word: thon
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...financial crisis, who knows which sectors will be the worst hit? In Turkey, it's the shoe-making industry, where 300,000 workers - 75% of the sector's workforce - have lost their jobs since the lira was devalued in late February. Entangled Wires E.U. Ministers took a mara-thon 10 hours of intense debate to try to agree how to regulate telecoms firms, before deciding to leave regulatory power in the hands of national authorities...
...true that Radcliffe's request for table space to advertise its phone-a-thon and job opportunities might have been inappropriate for the activities fairs. Instead, the Institute should have tried to use the fairs as a way to promote academic or extracurricular opportunities available to undergraduates. For example, the Institute conducts a mentorship program each year that pairs students at the College with professionals in various career fields in the Cambridge and Boston areas. This year Radcliffe will host 56 fellows, who will serve as advisors and speakers in the Institute's weekly lecture series. Radcliffe has allowed undergraduates...
...brochures distributed through WLP included information about job opportunities with the Radcliffe phone-a-thon and the undergraduate mentorship and externship programs run through the Radcliffe Alumna Association...
Radcliffe Development Officer Heather C. Wynne, who heads the phone-a-thon, said her office usually gets the names of about 100 first-years who are interested in working for the program...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said the College officials advised phone-a-thon organizers that the fairs are for extracurricular activities and they should consider recruiting students through the Student Employment Office...