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...favor. Not necessarily against them, but certainly in your favor. So don't sign the severance package at that moment; find out what their reasoning was behind you being selected as someone to lay off. And expect a nondescript answer. "It wasn't you - it's us." That typical breakup line. (See the worst business deals...
...meaning of modern intimacy. Digesting complicated interpersonal interactions into broadcastable realities, virtual relationship statuses have come to define actual relationship statuses; indeed, the three words “in a relationship” have gained so much power that they can serve as the focal point of a breakup. In a testament to the definitive function of Facebook, the removal of that phrase often offers the final word, supplying undeniable proof that it is officially, and irreparably, over. Summing up the entirety of a relationship with a mockingly cliché broken-heart icon, Facebook forces this intensely private and vulnerable...
...person that I really am," she says. So, partly in order to figure that out, she started to write, detailing the years-long arc of her relationship with a man 12 years her senior that began when she was still a teenager, her first trip to the Oscars, their breakup, her grief over his death in 1997, the making and release of Titanic, a list of every movie she turned down in its wake (she's too discreet to name them), the beginning of her first marriage and her bewilderment over what Hollywood wanted her to become. (Interested publishers...
...kind. Both Daschle and Richardson volunteered to leave the nomination process once their appointments became political liabilities. Gregg was a political asset to the President, one Obama boasted of in his Monday press conference, until the withdrawal. As any teenager will tell you, it's far better when a breakup is mutual than to get dumped when you least expect...
...models on the market in the U.S., and the deal with Chrysler can be seen as part of a series of "strategic partnerships" it has sealed with other automakers in recent years, including one with Tata motors and a deal to build diesel engines with Daimler-Chrysler, before the breakup last year of that German-American alliance...