Word: cull
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...confronted by "an enormous amount of information" - eyewitness testimony, statements from refugees, and American intelligence reports. Serb authorities kept tribunal investigators out of Kosovo from early 1998 until June 1999, when prosecutors entered Kosovo with nato troops after the alliance's bombing campaign. But the tribunal managed to cull testimony from a variety of sources, such as nongovernmental observers who were in Kosovo during the Serb cleansing and refugees who fled to Macedonia...
June is nail-biting time at Enron Corp., a Texas energy and trading giant, at which managers assemble twice a year to evaluate and cull employees as if they were head of cattle. Wrangling behind closed doors for up to two days at a time, the bosses compare and contrast the performance of workers over the prior six months and rate them on a five-point scale, with the top 5% designated "superior" and the bottom 15% labeled "needs improvement." In between are "excellent" (30%), "strong" (30%) and "satisfactory" (20%). You don't want to be in the cellar: anyone...
June is nail-biting time at Enron Corp., a Texas energy and trading giant, at which managers assemble twice a year to evaluate and cull employees as if they were head of cattle. Wrangling behind closed doors for up to two days at a time, the bosses compare and contrast the performance of workers over the prior six months and rate them on a five-point scale, with the top 5% designated "superior" and the bottom 15% labeled "needs improvement." In between are "excellent" (30%), "strong" (30%) and "satisfactory" (20%). You don't want to be in the cellar: anyone...
...highly infectious disease restricts the movement of people as well as livestock. Draconian slaughter, perhaps, could contain and defeat the infection before May. But Labour's strength among rural voters, never great, had diminished over the party's drive to ban fox hunting and will plummet further with the cull. "There will be many tears in the British countryside today," said Ben Gill, president of the National Farmers Union. "Our farms should be starting to jump to life with newborn lambs and calves. Instead, many will feel that spring has been canceled, and their farms are simply dead...
...news will only get worse as Tony Blair's government prepares to send army marksmen into the fields to join the exhausted men known as sleepers, who kill livestock with bullets, bolts and lethal injection. The emergency cull is being called for all animals that live within two miles of a confirmed infection. Blair already faces charges of incompetence and the possibility of a revolt by farmers whose herds are healthy. None of this makes a terribly picturesque backdrop for the election he would like to call...