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...mayor," Levy says. "In the future, they'll have to be more careful." Back in Bonn, Helga Moser doesn't take part in any taxpayers' groups or file suits against local authorities - but that doesn't mean she's indifferent when she sees her tax money going down the drain. She's still cross about a TV program she watched the other day showing how money is being wasted in parts of eastern Germany. "Shame on them," she says. "I am ready to pay taxes, but not to see that the money is spent stupidly." It's a message that...
...runs a hardware store on the same block, said the factory workers seemed paranoid, avoiding conversation and reinforcing the doors and windows with metal bars. And the smell from a nearby culvert was foul. "We thought maybe it was something from the shop," he says. "The smell of the drain, it was like urine...
...down to work is a very social matter. That's because employees are much more likely to turn to one another for information than to any other source. But managers are often completely in the dark about the design of such social networks. When networks organize themselves, they can drain coordination, learning and performance. The solution, according to The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations, is to make the network visible. By studying workers' interactions and not just the official chain of command, managers can spot such problems as "bottlenecks" (in which...
...said that she didn’t recommend writing a thesis, and that there was no reason everyone should be writing one,” Gasgarth said at the time. “She said it’s a real drain on the faculty, and not to even consider asking her to advise [a thesis...
...sometimes felt that [teaching] has been a drain on my energies, but I’ve never felt that I should duck out of it,” he says. “In percentage terms, over the last 15 years, I must have taught a lot more and devoted a lot more of my time to students than the great majority of professors...