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Planners Scrambling as Bomb Cyclone Hits East Coast

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And 5,000 people in Charleston, South Carolina, were without power on Wednesday after freezing rain and snow. She suggests negotiating for lower attrition thresholds —70 percent rather than 80 percent, for example. Tallahassee, Florida, hasn’t seen this much fluffy white stuff since 1989, according to the local weather service.

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Elizabeth Goad Never Stops Learning

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Marketing and graphic design for Accent Imaging, a printer and copier company in North Carolina. When I relocated to South Carolina, I fell back on my marketing and design skills and took a job working for Cora Bett Thomas Realty & Associates. I designed promotional materials and helped manage internal and customer events.

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How Planners Maximize the Benefits of Telecommuting

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Based in South Carolina with three young children, she lives many time zones away from the company’s offices in Geneva, Amsterdam, and Tel Aviv. When she came back 15 years later, she negotiated a flexible schedule of working from the office and from home. And their numbers went higher than they ever were in the office.”.

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Meetings, Events Return with New Safety Protocols, Operation Standards 

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For example, this past spring, Georgia International Convention Center (GICC) hosted Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated’s 69th South Atlantic Regional Conference, a gathering of 8,000 members from Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. . Read More : Negotiating and Cost-saving Tips for Real Meetings.

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Best in Show: Class of 2017

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Director of Audio Visuals, J&S Audio Visual, Charleston, South Carolina. But I would like to nominate Ricky for what he does for us outside of contract negotiation. He came to us with the perfect combination of wanting to make the show look good, but also wanting to be respectful of the client’s budget restrictions.

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