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...heady tonic for anyone who moves in the power circles of Washington D.C., let alone a district court judge in the autumn of his years. Jackson may well argue that he simply could not contain himself; his rage at the disingenuousness and the arrogance spewing forth from the Microsoft bench day after day was as ill-disguised inside the courtroom as out - more than once he called a recess, red-faced and practically spitting, to compose himself...
...last Sept. 28, and Fernandes had just got home. The flasher attached to her phone was blinking, the sign that it was ringing. It was Gallaudet. Fernandes jumped into her Camry, raced back to campus and arrived in time to see a colleague standing on a bench so he could be viewed by the crowd, as he signed the latest news. A freshman had been bludgeoned to death...
Those who do fall into that category do not get bonuses and must sit down with a supervisor to draft a plan for performing better. Salvaging such workers is only prudent, Accenture's Jensen notes, because "it is the 25th man off the bench who may win the baseball game for you." For bench warmers who can't sweeten their swings or improve their fielding, though, the next steps are a severance package and a swift exit from the roster...
...Tories' front bench has not been particularly impressive since the drubbing of 1997. Former Chancellor Ken Clarke, now a backbencher and probably the country's most popular Tory, would be the obvious choice. Yet he remains a committed pro-European in a party that is deeply Euro-skeptic. Shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe may galvanize the grass roots, but she is on the right of a party already criticized for moving too far in that direction. Other possible contenders, such as shadow defence secretary Iain Duncan Smith, a former soldier, are relatively unknown to voters at large...
...Those who do fall into that category do not get bonuses and must sit down with a supervisor to draft a plan for performing better. Salvaging such workers is only prudent, Accenture's Jensen notes, because "it is the 25th man off the bench who may win the baseball game for you." For bench warmers who can't sweeten their swings or improve their fielding, though, the next steps are a severance package and a swift exit from the roster...