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November/December 2007 Features:
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Profile: (On The Cover) MAVEN OF MANNERS:
DIANE GOTTSMAN - Etiquette, protocol, good manners:
Call it what you wish — just do it
As I prepared for my interview
with Diane Gottsman, the
founder and director of The
Protocol School of Texas, my
mind started whirring. Earlier that morning
she had changed our meeting from a
coffee locale to breakfast at a restaurant.
I didn’t think anything of it at the time,
but as I made my nest at the..
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Up Front: A CHILD OF
THEIR OWN - The adoption process may be emotionally and financially
stressful, but the rewards last a lifetime
Adoption is certainly not a new
thing, but like everything else in
our society, it has undergone
changes in the last couple of
decades. Babies are no longer adopted
under an ironclad cloak of secrecy, international
placements are common, and singles
have joined the ranks of adoptive parents.
Below are...
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Family Issues: DE-CLUTTER
YOUR SURROUNDINGS - Getting started, staying on task
I am about to embark on the decluttering
project(s) to end all decluttering
projects.
According to Julie Morgenstern
in Organizing from the Inside Out, this
means creating a system based on my
specific personality, needs and goals. It
focuses on defining who I am and what
is important to me as a person so that my
system is designed to reflect that...
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Dollars & Sense: BUYING A NEW CAR - Steps you can take to get the best deal
It’s that wonderful time of year —
the time for celebrations, for getting
together with friends and family
to show off your new stuff, and
maybe overspending.
Christmas? Hanukkah? Kwanzaa?
No, no, it’s the purchase of your new car!
The end of the year often brings great
sales on this year’s vehicles as dealerships
hurry to beef up their sales figures for the
year and to make room for new models.
While you can get a good deal on a car any time of year...
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Travel: A TEXAS
CHRISTMAS - Celebrating the holidays
in the Hill Country
If the hustle of shopping for holiday
gifts, competing with crowds, looking
for a parking space and searching
all over town for that toy every
child wants makes you feel more Scrooge
than Santa, put that behind you and head
for the hills. The Hill Country, that is.
As you stroll down the main streets of
its picturesque little towns, browsing in
antiques shops, boutiques, one-of-akind
gift emporia and galleries, you’ll
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Role Model: DANGER, EXCITEMENT,
FULFILLMENT - Officer Yvonne Mauricio finds all three in her job
with the San Antonio Police Department
Watching a car ahead of
them, two police officers
on patrol nodded at each
other before one of them
switched on the light on top of their car.
Something about the driver of the other
vehicle seemed off to them, and they
had probable cause to pull him over —
failure to signal before turning, a mudcovered
license plate...
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Biz Coach: GENERATION GAPS IN THE WORKPLACE — Learning to understand others’ values and viewpoints
Just about any place you work these days, you’ll hear about a common challenge: conflict between the “older” versus the “younger” employees. But the problem isn’t really that simple. Actually, there currently are four generations in the workplace — each with its own background, values, beliefs and characteristics...
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Giving Back :THE ELF LOUISE
PROJECT - Thanks to donors and volunteers,
needy
children receive presents from Santa
Two college students wandered
through darkened San Antonio
streets, one holding a flashlight
and map, the other reluctantly
dressed as a tall, lanky Santa Claus.
It was Christmas Eve. They carried a
bag of mostly used toys that they had
collected from friends and strangers.
They knocked on doors until 2 a.m...
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