Word: guidebooks
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...parents," he says. "And there I was, at 16, still on my mom's passport." As an undergraduate at the University of Washington, he began backpacking in Europe every summer. Within a few years, he started a one-man company leading minibus tours. He published his first guidebook in 1980; a generation later, Steves employs 80 people and has spent roughly a third of his life living out of a suitcase. (Yeah, he designs and sells those...
...stores in the Cambridge-Boston area. Rover also gives users live access to numerous deals and discounts in the Square exclusive to Rover users. The application, available for use on the newest versions of the Apple iPhone and iTouch, uses the Unofficial Guide to Student Life at Harvard, a guidebook published by HSA, as its main source of information. The book has reviews of over 900 establishments in Cambridge and Boston. “There are lots of good reviews, but would you ever bring a guidebook with you when you went out?” said Winston...
...student, alum, or college guidebook will tell you, the Harvard social scene is dismal compared to other universities. Although part of this is because students generally prioritize partying less, another reason is that many organizations that want to hold big functions just don’t have the space. These groups, which serve as valuable networks during the day, are handicapped from exercising their full social potential by their impotency at night. Students are not lacking in initiative, as evidenced by the popularity of the Cambridge Adult Learning Center as a venue for club events at the beginning of this...
...interview February, Smith said the administration would use the results of the early retirement program to reevaluate the budget and determine whether staff layoffs will be necessary. The fewer staffers decide to take the package, the higher the possibility of layoffs will be, Smith said. According to a guidebook for FAS departments that details planning procedures for next year’s budget, the administration will know the number of retirees in each department by mid-April. Departments that may need to initiate job cuts after the program’s end have been instructed to devise provisional lists...
...future layoffs, which many of them view as inevitable.In February meetings with department administrators, FAS finance officials said the University would review budgets after the 45-day window and then consider the need for layoffs with the Office of the General Counsel and human resources officials.According to a guidebook for FAS departments that details planning procedures for next fiscal year’s budget, the administration expects to notify all laid-off employees within a short time frame in the spring. Departments will devise provisional lists of workers who might be laid off, and final decisions will be made...