Word: bestowed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dispute people’s associations of Christopher Columbus with mass murder, oppression and the appalling conditions that still exist on reservations. And maybe it doesn’t help that we have assigned Columbus a holiday, which is basically the most vague, imprecise and symbolic honor we can bestow...
...like the "Left Behind" series) chock full of hi-tech and hollow-point bullets, but for Left Behind's apocalyptic backdrop, it substitutes more modest effects like the raising of the dead. This is a wonder that Bright is convinced that God ("He hasn't changed"), continues to bestow among communities of "people who trust and obey him." But not, Bright hopes, to him: since it would interrupt his final reunion with the Lord. He has no idea how much time he has left. He appears not to be concerned. "If I die I'm going to heaven...
...manager's personal preferences rather than how well a worker has met company standards. Gregory calls it absurd for executives to tell middle managers to "choose those whom you would like to be on a desert island with"--a popular strategy at some companies--because the manager may promptly bestow a high ranking on friends, creating grounds for discrimination complaints. Indeed, if ranking and yanking is to have lasting value, employees from the mail room on up to the executive suite must be seen to be getting what truly is coming to them...
...manager's personal preferences rather than how well a worker has met company standards. Gregory calls it absurd for executives to tell middle managers to "choose those whom you would like to be on a desert island with"--a popular strategy at some companies--because the manager may promptly bestow a high ranking on friends, creating grounds for discrimination complaints. Indeed, if ranking and yanking is to have lasting value, employees from the mail room on up to the executive suite must be seen to be getting what truly is coming to them...
...have to be Einstein to manage stock options if you keep things simple. They bestow the right to buy stock from your employer at a preset price by a preset time. If the market price is higher, you pocket the difference. If the price is lower, the options are worthless but cost you nothing. It's a great deal, reserved until recently for top execs as a very tangible incentive to get the stock moving higher. How to keep it simple...