Word: complexity
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...However, GM is an exceptionally complex enterprise, with 400 separate subsidiaries all over the world, some of which are consolidated and some of which are not. In fact, going forward, GM's huge European operations, including its burgeoning business in Russia, will no longer be consolidated. It also appears that GM could withhold information on pension obligations, which are separate from the VEBA, even though that will remain with...
...take place by the end of the summer.Galvin said that it is "premature" to predict when workforce changes will take place. He also said that discussions are continuing about the feasibility of a similar early retirement incentive for faculty members, but said that creating such a program is "a complex proposition that will require extensive deliberation by the deans and University leadership."Similar staff early retirement incentive programs have been used at Dartmouth and Cornell in recent months as well. At Cornell, 423 staffers applied for and received buyouts out of approximately 1,300 eligible workers, representing a yield...
...game, four years in the making, is set in beautiful Sunset Valley, a town that has 67 simulated human residents. They are fascinatingly complex and have lives of their own; you can follow them around or spy on them in their homes. All the residents age at the same rate as your character (a rate you can change to speed up the game). You can fall in love with the girl next door and marry her 10 years later. In previous versions, characters' ages were frozen in time unless you were interacting with them...
...That's when the Dumpster divers - townies and students alike - get to work. (I recall, eight years ago as an RA, raiding rooms in my apartment complex for espresso machines and other appliances that had been left behind.) Some come in search of academic items, others the purely recreational. This month, for example, a teen walking past a collection site for discarded goods at Princeton University picked up a toy gun that soon afterward was mistaken for the real thing, setting off an emergency response that resulted in a half-hour campus lockdown. (See TIME's photos from a public...
...real savings to be had in cutting down on MRIs - especially unneeded ones. But it's quite hard to keep insured patients who ask for expensive medical tests and treatments from getting them. Blocking a patient who wants something they saw in an advertisement is time-consuming. Teaching the complex truth one on one is a lot harder than convincing large numbers through eye-catching, sound-biting market psychology. It's a money loser too. Most of the time, a patient who has been sold on something you don't want to use will just leave and go to another...