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...told me that grading would be more difficult,” said Damien T. Wint ’05. “I got the sense that grading was a work in progress...and that they weren’t quite sure how to adjust the grades...
...Warner, agreed two years ago to complete the $106 billion deal in which the online upstart bought the old-media giant, their union has produced a Shakespearean torrent of pain and recrimination. As the Internet bubble burst and advertising slid into recession, the company's executives were slow to adjust their lavish profit-growth promises to Wall Street, which struck back hard. Having tumbled from a high of $56.60, the price of AOL Time Warner's widely held stock stood at $14.81 at the end of last week, representing an almost $200 billion collapse of shareholder wealth. Levin was forced...
...shock treatment, resets the electrical state of the brain by inducing a seizure. (Despite ECT's lurid reputation, it involves mild doses of current and can be almost miraculously successful in patients whose depression will not yield to drugs.) Even old-fashioned, low-tech talk therapy can help adjust a patient's brain chemistry and lessen the severity of depression, especially in conjunction with other treatments...
...state of Colorado and a former director of the literature department at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, explains why exile in the West has played such a key role in the life of émigré writers: "After fleeing from China, life was hard. We had to adjust to a new culture at a late age. Gao didn't have a job and tried to survive by selling his paintings. Another author, Ah Cheng, did everything from auto repair to fast-food delivery. 'What does America mean to me?' Ah Cheng asked himself and found that it was simply...
...responsibility and information to the lowest ranks. Managers of departments such as sporting goods or women's apparel still get detailed reports of sales and profits in their areas, and they have a say in which products are stocked. Store managers can still buy locally and ask headquarters to adjust inventory of company brands that it has asked them to stock. Coughlin says Wal-Mart will not stray far from the locals-know-best model, even as more information and merchandise flows through Bentonville. At headquarters, management focuses on the top 20% and bottom 20% of its stores, as measured...