Word: center
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Menick and Wilford were first to take center stage. Dartmouth had just pieced together a surprising opening drive to take a quick 7-0 lead, and it appeared that momentum was on the Green's side. But then the Harvard offense took the field, and Dartmouth folded faster than a cheap lawn chair...
Experts strongly recommend, too, that managers communicate effectively with nightworkers. At the UCLA Medical Center, an e-mail system was recently installed to improve communications, but Lea Ann Cook, a director at the transplant/surgical specialties intensive-care units, noticed that nurses were still frustrated at having limited access to classes and training and "still don't feel in the loop, because [e-mail] can't replace human contact." At firms such as Schwab, management works hard at dealing with night employees just as they would dayworkers...
Like more and more American workers, Martin has come to depend on his employer to keep him healthy and, to some degree, sane. On days when he doesn't bicycle to work, the father of two jogs on a treadmill in the HP fitness center. He studies meditation and stress reduction, gets flu shots, has his blood and body fat checked, and gets advice from company crisis counselors--all at work and for little or no cost...
...efforts are a hit with employees. In booming high-tech fields, where companies are looking for every edge in the competition for recruits, a glistening, state-of-the-art fitness center can clinch a contract. Few employees are worried their bosses will use health data against them, says United Auto Workers spokesman Reg McGhee. In fact, his union has even agreed to pay part of the cost of on-the-job health promotions...
...latticework under his tired, wary eyes. They are all the hints we need to detect a soul swamped in ethical dilemmas. When Crowe gets to command the screen, The Insider comes to roiled life. It's an All the President's Men in which Deep Throat takes center stage, an insider prodded to spill the truth...