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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gina Foster, who can play as well in the backfield as she can up front. Because of the graduation of First-Team All-Ivy selection Chu last year, Foster will attempt to focus her efforts in bolstering the Harvard defense early in the season, though Wheaton may choose to switch her back to the offensive side of the ball later in the year...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Hopes to Reload In a Hurry | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...through the administrative work and rules that accompany a plan designed for businesses that had whole departments dedicated to payroll and benefits. In the end, she relied on the services of an office manager and an outsourced payroll program to administer the benefit. Last year her staff voted to switch to the SIMPLE. In addition to offering easier administration, Lasley says, the SIMPLE was attractive because it doesn't have strict rules about what percentage of employees must participate or how little they can contribute. This gives smaller employers a flexibility that they often need. "The reality is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Company, Big Plan | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...haven't just awakened from a long nap, but I've obviously been asleep at this particular switch for quite a while. Then, out of habit one recent evening, I tuned to a baseball game on television. I don't know what caused my altered perceptions, but for the first time in a long while I watched, really watched, what was being displayed on my TV screen. And eureka! I knew the thrill that Archimedes experienced in his bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dueling Head Shots | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

Callie's biological parents, Whitney Rogers and Kevin Chittum, were killed in a traffic accident on July 4, 1998, just days before they would have learned of the switch. And in mourning the young parents, there had been some hope that Callie and Becca's accidentally conjoined clans could let the girls share their lives together. A month after the deaths, the Chittums and the Rogerses, who share the care of Rebecca, and Johnson met and seemed to get along. The girls went swimming together in a family pool. Then Callie spent a week visiting Becca's extended family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cradles of Contention | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Team members from the rest of the kitchen converge around Oberdorfer to help finish the cookies. Before they started cooking, the group split into two- or three-person teams that would, to their surprise, switch places at the appetizer, entree and dessert stations. The job shuffle was designed to address their boss's desire for them to share tasks better. It wasn't always easy. The first shift had a communications crisis: "The recipe says broil, but the oven's on bake!" (The incoming veggie team hadn't been debriefed on a menu change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Extreme Offsites | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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