Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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During the first few weeks in ROWE, employees call "sludge" out loud when they hear an offending comment. They try to keep a sense of humor about it--some teams put a dollar into a kitty for every sludge infraction. Yes, it sounds weird, but it can help people break their bad habits, says Phyllis Moen, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota who is studying Best Buy's ROWE employees. "These are all examples of the way we use time to say how valuable we are," she says...
...police arrested nine investors for protesting, and a Beijing-based lawyer was detained after filing a lawsuit against the Shaanxi provincial government on the investors' behalf. "We have not launched a political movement," says a peasant prospector named Zhao Suiling, who says he was compensated at 20? on the dollar for his oil wells. "We only want to protect our businesses...
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technology can deliver up-to-the-minute news feeds from media outlets to an RSS subscriber’s desktop. Now the technology may get a $100-million-dollar shot in the arm. Palfrey and James F. Moore, a former senior fellow at the Berkman Center, have teamed up with venture capitalists Richard Fishman and Ritchie Capital’s Steve Smith and Tom Crowley to raise $100 million for RSS Investors, LP, the first private equity fund geared toward investing in RSS technology...
Downstairs, a handful of shoppers rummage through clothes piled a foot deep across a wide expanse of floor space at Dollar a Pound+. (In fact, merchandise is currently priced at $1.50 per pound.) A shoe section offers used wingtips and new knee-high boots and stack-heeled monstrosities. Upstairs, clothing is more or less organized into racks of new, used, and vintage ’60s and ’70s duds...
...Garment District is 14 years old, the complement to the Dollar A Pound business that began when the building still housed an industrial rag manufacturer...