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Things are looking pretty okay on this side of the “senior-spring” divide. I tried to keep my window open this afternoon because it was a really pretty day. Without warning, a huge gust of wind blew all of my photocopied sources off the desk and all over the floor. Not to worry, I just swept all of them up and threw them in the trash. I mean, at this point, does it really matter if I give the real page number? Will the person grading our thesis even notice if every citation from page...
Common wisdom held that technology alone could explain the growth. After all, every large corporation in the country, and many of the smaller companies, invested in technology at a breakneck pace. All it took to increase productivity was a computer on every desk and an e-commerce store for everything, so we were told. Yet few saw the tremendous productivity improvements that were promised, something that many in the tech industry could have predicted. It’s an old joke among the technology companies that the only firms that know how to use technology well—with rare...
...party hat perched on his head. It was only then that we started to ask, Is this guy kidding or what? Nikita Kruschev was similarly supposed to scare the daylights out of us, and he did for a while. Then he took off his shoe, whacked it on his desk, and the bad-guy boss started to look an awful lot more like a small-time clown...
...favorite part of the Saudi plan, however, is the bit about the desk drawer. The Saudis, you see, have been very eager to make peace, but, alas, the wish has had to lie dormant because of that terrible Israeli leader Sharon...
That spit-and-polish soldier in uniform behind the desk at the Army recruiting office may soon be a thing of the past. To save more of its manpower for important duties closer to the battlefield, the Army in May will begin deploying civilians rather than uniformed soldiers in some of its recruiting stations around the country. Responding to congressional direction, the service will pay two Virginia companies $172 million to staff about 65 of its 1,700 recruiting stations over the next five years with civilians (mostly former noncommissioned officers). Some critics wonder whether youngsters thinking about enlisting will...