Word: belle
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...Whether they're fair or not, bell curve-like rating systems--which many employees now call rank and yank--have spread in recent years to some 20% of U.S. companies, and the trend is growing. They're particularly handy during periods of economic slowdown like the present one, when employees tend to cling to their jobs rather than retire or change positions. That lowers the normal rate of departures through attrition--which can run as high as 20% of a corporate work force when people feel like job hopping--just when companies are seeking to cut their costs to satisfy...
...economist who advised two presidents and was later a population studies expert at Harvard, David E. Bell died Sept. 6 after a brief illness...
...Bell was a special assistant to President Harry S. Truman and a director of the Bureau of the Budget and the Agency for International Development under President John F. Kennedy...
...Bell's employment at Harvard came in two stints. In the late 1950s, Bell worked on a predecessor project of the Harvard Institute for International Development. He then returned in 1981 as the Gamble professor of population sciences and international health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He took emeritus status in 1988, but continued to regularly come into work...
...Former Harvard President Derek Bok called Bell "one of the finest human beings I have been privileged to know during my 40 years at Harvard...