Word: bestowed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...None of the above: Milosevic's charisma faded sometime during the Bosnian war and from then on, he ruled by fear, bribery and skillful political maneuvering. Now that he is no longer in a position to intimidate or bestow gifts, he has discovered, like many autocrats before him, that all the support is suddenly gone...
...major compositions, paintings and literary works of the twentieth century provides a convenient and heavy-handed way of getting at these themes and questions, although the highly improbable scenario has a certain forced, unreal tone. Instead of making an insightful comment on how we define artistic greatness and bestow fame, it actually takes something away from the ambitious discussion of our desire for those things. The precarious arrangement behind which Scott has hidden his genius from the outside world is all about to come undone, two days before Scott’s 183rd birthday. In pursuit of relative peace...
...while it is one thing to do business with China in the hopes of effecting the eventual fall of Beijing’s Communist regime, it is quite another thing to bestow upon that regime the seal of international approval associated with the Olympics. The free nations of the world often trade with countries whose policies they disagree with while simultaneously encouraging those countries to make political reforms...