With his lively writing and cynical humor, this author, a partner in a private equity firm, is a captivating tour guide to a Wall Street wonderland of greed, folly and deceit whose rules seem lifted from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
Arriving in Colaba, Lindsay befriends a tour guide of his own, Prabhaker, who gives him the nickname Linbaba.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Riad Mesti(ph) tapes up an advertisement he's written touting his services as a tour guide.
In English a tour guide was giving his version of the events 30 years ago.
Splurge on a private tour guide for the Vatican museums to avoid the hour-long lines outside.
She got the idea for the company when she was a jeep tour guide in Sedona, Ariz.
Ms. Knight recently conducted a series of user studies at Carnegie Mellon casting Data as a campus tour guide.
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"Here is the first person to discover the terra-cotta soldiers, " barks a tour guide to a group of Hong Kong visitors.
Bon Deblois, a tour guide leading another hiking group, told GMA News television they heard a loud explosion before visibility was reduced.
Ly still works as a tour guide and estimates that at least 20 percent of her earnings go toward supporting the children.
And she also had a tour guide that was helping her out there as well, who I know about and who I've spoken with personally.
Yu found some work as a tour guide for a trickle of curious American Jews seeking what signs remained of the Jewish community in Shanghai.
"Everyone who lives in Toronto, even if they're 100 years old, knows Kensington Market, " says Bruce Bell, a local tour guide who makes regular pilgrimages into the market.
When Cambodia opened up to tourism in the 1990s, Ly -- who speaks Khmer, Russian, French and English -- became a licensed tour guide to earn more money.
The blurb on the back cover said that the writer had worked for years as a tour guide in Cuba and Africa and that his travels had influenced his writing.
"Everyone and his uncle would like to be a tour guide, and we have a lot of people doing it illegally, " says Harvey Davidson, spokesman for the Guides Association of NYC.
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The Information Ministry initially identified the fatalities as three Myanmar citizens: a tour guide and an 11-year-old child on board the plane, and a man riding a motorcycle on the road where the plane came down.
Inscribed on the inside cover were the words, "Use it as a tour guide, " and in the back I had pasted a picture of my wife and me with my parents, taken just after our deployment ceremony.
" He deputizes himself as a tour guide to the human psyche, promising to find the triggers of sadness wherever they might lurk: "I will adventure to guess as near as I can, and rip them all up, from the first to the last, general and particular, to every species, that so they may be better described.
"Retailers are still trying to figure out what the heck it all means, but they know their customers are engrossed in digital commerce so they need to be there, " says Tom Furphy, a venture capitalist and former Amazon executive who played tour guide for a handful of executives from supermarkets and consumer-goods companies at a recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
My guide on a recent tour of the Hilton Concord was Charles A. Smith, CEO, Hotel Sustainability Solutions, Inc.
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"If the wok stays hot and the food is fresh there's very little chance of bacteria, " my friend Joann Khaw, a local walking tour guide, told me.
Author Finder is a well-versed tour guide to the business world, capable of mixing satire with insider lore.
As a renowned explorer, tour guide, archaeologist and volunteer firefighter, Vaughn knows the country and its stories better than anyone else.
For the latter, check out Orange Bike's Singing Guide Tour, where a local will sing you through the city's sites (not recommended for the easily embarrassed).
After meeting up with the archeologist guide, visitors take a cycling tour (bikes are provided) through the temple complex and north toward the south gate of Angkor Thom, to check out the centerpiece of this ancient city, the Bayon temple.
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The tome, which includes a pictorial guide to moldings and their applications, is an illuminating tour of French interiors and a how-to resource for attaining that Gallic flair.
The exclusive experience starts at dusk when daily visitors clear out, and an archaeological guide leads the couple on a private tour through the ancient city.
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