Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asia, management used a combination of work-force reduction and other strategies to save itself from diving markets overseas. Atlas, of Burlingame, Calif., suffered a catastrophic 65% drop in sales this year. The downturn led the company to lay off four of its 16 employees and to slash its travel budget from $450,000 to $75,000. With the help of its suppliers, Atlas cut the cost of its products in order to keep its struggling customers. "It's been the most difficult time in our history, and we've been around for 25 years," says vice president Joseph Ryan...
...know about encryption and price supports, dairy farming and the FBI." But the peculiar nature of the Clinton presidency quickly demanded another type of talent, something not mentioned in a typical job description. Podesta's own description of it was "Secretary of S___." First, there was the travel-office fiasco, in which he wrote a postmortem report that put an unwelcome focus on Hillary's role (and by some accounts, put him on her bad side for a while). He later made amends when he defended the First Lady on Whitewater and on her controversial investment in cattle futures...
Robin Williams, fresh from his Academy Award, again leaves his comedic training behind him in his role as Chris Nielsen, who dies in a car accident and must travel from heaven to hell to save his wife (Annabella Sciorra) after she commits suicide in her despair over his death. Although the plot is the standard quest situation, it demands that the film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams...
...agency--which started out by publishing a photocopied brochure of travel tips for student travelers in Europe--has now expanded to six continents and adds a new guide every year. During the past six years Let's Go has published new guides for Thailand, India and Nepal and China...
Turco has already made changes based on the consultant's report, consolidating Harvard Catering and Harvard Student Resources. And Let's Go Travel shifted its focus to selling weekend getaways, rather than selling flights...