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...training ground, Reid will also have to boost his team's fitness and morale: many players flag in the second half or hang their heads when they are a goal down. "You're not going to win every football match," he says. "I'm not that daft...
...million members. A new member signs up every second; a million join every two weeks. The site, which has new job-search functions in the works, already lets employment seekers figure out what connections they have to people who work at companies that are hiring. Premium, paid features boost the number of listings that searches yield and enable users to contact those outside their social network. At least one executive from every FORTUNE 500 company is now on the site--and Oracle's new CFO landed his post through his LinkedIn profile...
...nine months since assuming the top job, the former Dartmouth basketball player, 48, has shown a penchant for shaking things up. In October he acquired three companies on the same day that he laid off 10% of eBay's 16,000 workers worldwide--a way to boost efficiency in a tougher economic climate...
...subject was 15% more likely to be happy too; if that friend's friend was happy, the original subject was 10% more likely to be so. Even if the subject's friend's friend's friend--entirely unknown to the subject--was happy, the subject still got a 5.6% boost. The happiness chain also worked in the other direction, radiating from the subject out to her friends. (See the Top 10 late night gags...
While the $700 billion bailout has been the focus of attention and scrutiny, the Internal Revenue Service and lawmakers have been quietly making changes to the tax code and how it is followed in an effort to further boost the financial strength of ailing companies. At the same time, though, the changes drain billions of dollars of badly needed tax revenue when the federal deficit is mushrooming. Many of the changes may lower corporate-tax revenue for years to come...