Word: alongism
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What are the main qualities you look for in an employee? Loyalty and a strong work ethic. I work hard and I get along with people very well provided they work hard too. Loyalty is important, and I like people to stay around, so I look for their work history. I have people who have been with me for 25, 30 years. Loyalty creates a solid base, and I need people who can keep up with...
...Aristide's return. Its timing made the assassination almost a personal rebuke of Clinton. Only hours after the President, in a Washington news conference, expressed concern for the safety of members of Aristide's putative government, gunmen riddled Malary's car with bullets as it drove along a quiet street in the residential Port-au-Prince district of Turgeau, killing the minister, his chauffeur and two bodyguards. The U.S. then sought, and got, Security Council approval to impose what would amount to a blockade of Haiti. It would not use the word, which Clinton noted historically describes...
Siegel raced with her name inscribed on her Harvard goldenrod jersey, and heard complete strangers along the sidelines screaming “Go Molly” and “Go Harvard...
...Gates' reasoning is unlikely to deter many companies, which simply cannot afford to lose hugely valuable vessels and cargo to seaborne bandits. Indeed, insurance premiums have risen along with the ransom amounts, according to Regester, who estimates that coverage for a single voyage through the Gulf of Aden costs about $20,000. With shipping companies hard-hit by the global downturn, some opt simply to take their chances running the gauntlet of pirates, rather than pay insurance premiums. "I reckon less than 10% of vessels are insured now," says Regester. "K&R policies are considered a luxury." Whether...
...Tigers had built an earth bund, several meters high, around a narrow 12-km (7.5-mile) no-fire zone on the eastern shores of the Mulaithivu lagoon and, according to reports from the area, had set up gun encampments every 30 meters (98 feet) or so along it. According to Laxman Hulugalle, Director General of the Sri Lankan defense ministry's Media Centre for National Security, after overnight fighting, troops captured a small stretch of the fortified earth bund on the morning of April 20, and between 25,000 and 30,000 civilians trapped behind the bund streamed through...