Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sachire took Blake to three sets on the courts at Indiana State, but the nation's best player confirmed his status once again in an epic battle...
...that she didn't give it some serious thought. Mawn researched the best financial-real-estate programs, sent away for applications and took a prep course for the Graduate Management Admissions Test. But after seeking advice from senior woman executives in her company, including some with M.B.A.s, she decided to forgo the degree...
...Beard, 52, is in the hotel business, so it's almost axiomatic that he has sympathy for the travails of the traveling--or moving--businessperson. Especially if it's him. Last April he took a job as vice president of operations for Regent International Hotels, a chain of luxury hotels owned by the Carlson Cos., a travel and restaurant conglomerate based in Minneapolis, Minn. The switch meant a move from Dallas to Minneapolis for himself, his wife Barbara and daughters Cassandra, 8, and Lauren, 10. Beard likes the new employment opportunity, but as a veteran of 14 previous employment relocations...
Employers are also tending more to relocating families' personal as well as professional needs. For Mark Adler, 51, moving his family from Atlanta to Houston last November was made easier because a relocation company hired by his employer personally took him and his wife Elena, 46, to search for a private school for their daughter Alexandra, 12. The relocation company even helped the Adlers find a stable where Alexandra could continue her horseback riding. Adler, who is director of forecasting for Minute Maid, a division of the Coca-Cola Co., has gone through about five relocations during his 23 years...
...covers, and his enthusiasm, sense of invention and plain wicked fun was contagious. Tibor had no patience with design that merely made things elegant, pretty or beautiful; he always aspired to design that was equal to the content, that meant something, told us about the way we live and took responsibility for itself. He made things that woke us out of our slumber with a kiss or a raspberry. I'll miss...