As recruiters from international schools lined up at the cash bar at a Hilton, their perspective future employees watched for any signals that they might have landed jobs.
Women's track powers like Louisiana State, Southern California and Arkansas are now among the 70 or so schools lining up to recruit Perez for her last two years of college eligibility.
The news that Louisiana State had dismissed one of its best players, defensive back Tyrann Mathieu, had the predictable ripple effect in schools lining up for permission to poach him for their teams.
Several of the 14 small schools lining up beside them for the three-mile race were every bit as talented as the big schools in other divisions.
This marketing scheme was used on licensed products beginning with the back-to-school line in 2000.
Mr. Oldham was asked to design an extensive back-to-school line -- Target's second-biggest product season after Christmas.
Every morning at half past eight, the third-grade students at the Chengdu school line up to shake hands with their teacher, Shi Beilei.
Still, Kmart saw fit to introduce a back-to-school line for Joe Boxer, which includes products like lamps and bedding that could compete with Martha Stewart products.
An editorial in The Hindustan Times said that "perhaps Ms. Chopra had taken the convent school line about the Holy Ghost a little too seriously".
Posters promoting the school line bus stops along Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway, and some people say they have gotten more than 10 fliers in the mail, several proclaiming the charter school as "the public-school solution to private-school tuition".
