Word: vite
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...where everything from playing sports to making friends has become digitalized, James D. Hirschfeld ’08 is introducing a novel concept to the electronic world: elegant e-mail invitations. Unlike existing e-vite programs, Paperless Post aims to save money and paper while maintaining the same quality of a written invitation...
...Greek food to 20 of my friends, who I thought had come to sell their jewelry but actually came to make fun of me. This was one of the few parties at which, instead of inviting writers, I would have been far better off loading up the e-vite list with meth addicts. After a while, some let me test their jewelry "for fun." When my machine read not gold, I found myself comforting people, telling them that their parents probably didn't know or that brass was the platinum of the early...
...added to Harvard students’ ever-growing spam levels when they emailed a large portion of the undergraduate population invitations to a “Fuckin’ Spookalicious Pre-Halloween Party.” Katherine M. Bringsjord ’09, while wary of the E-vite, laughed at the cyber-booty call. “I just think it’s hysterical that they have to outsource,” she says. The most alarming aspect of this mass email was not the lack of available ass at MIT—old news?...
...local living-wage laws have been enacted in the U.S., most apply just to city workers or contractors. Union leaders say the Chicago rule means a long-overdue raise for the working poor. In real terms, wages for nonmanagerial retail workers have fallen 18% since 1975. But David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says the law could deter inner-city economic development. "Companies affected by this ordinance have capital budgets they can spend anywhere in the U.S.," Vite says, "and they'll now go elsewhere." Target, for one, has announced its postponement of plans for a previously...
...president of the Entertainment Software Association, a trade group representing 25 major gaming companies. "The state of Illinois should not dictate the choices parents make," says Lowenstein, who believes that the industry should continue to regulate itself. In fact, some retailers are making an effort to crack down. David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says big stores like Target have locking registers that do not permit video-game transactions until a buyer's date of birth is punched in. Proof of age isn't always requested, however. And compliance among retailers is voluntary and often spotty...