Word: clingingly
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...fair or not, bell curve-like rating systems--which many employees now call rank and yank--have spread in recent years to some 20% of U.S. companies, and the trend is growing. They're particularly handy during periods of economic slowdown like the present one, when employees tend to cling to their jobs rather than retire or change positions. That lowers the normal rate of departures through attrition--which can run as high as 20% of a corporate work force when people feel like job hopping--just when companies are seeking to cut their costs to satisfy Wall Street. "People...
...baby sitter, the neighbor or a relative who has come over to help with child care. We don't go out much. We don't travel much. We cobble together work, meals and outside activities. Financially, we don't do as well as married parents, but we cling to the consolation prize of fiscal independence. Without a marriage to tend, we give our children all our energy, and much prefer their company to the occasional blind dates we force ourselves to go on. We don't like the way bitterness tastes in the back of our mouth, so we swallow...
...ages 15 and 11. (It is very difficult to find an apartment in New York City.) It is unclear how often Nathan actually visits the mansion, although she has appeared at several mayoral functions at Giuliani's side. Meanwhile, the mayor's divorce lawyer derided Hanover for "trying to cling to a marriage that's been dead for years." In France, they would just all settle for a menage...
...Despite this kind of thing happening, I’d like to think we are still one community,” he said as the students inside the building began to poke their heads out the window. “I’ll cling to that...
...despite their worst spring training in decades--one in which both Nomar Garciaparra and Manny Ramirez were injured and soft-spoken manager Jimy Williams managed to alienate even selfless knuckleballer Tim Wakefield--I stubbornly cling to my notion, renewed with the first pitch each spring, that this is the year...