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Woodruff said that one drawback to the embedded reporting strategy was that there were not as many correspondents available to report on civilian reactions and casualties. He said that as a result the biggest failure of embedded reporting was that it did not produce as well-rounded a view...
...that hierarchy. You pay more if you have higher use, and obviously families will have higher use." Boeing has for several years charged workers an extra $100 a month if their spouses or domestic partners who are employed elsewhere decline coverage from their employers. The drawback to such plans is that they are "administratively difficult--you have to get more involved in aspects of a family life," says Barry Schilmeister, a principal with Mercer Human Resource Consulting...
...danger to owners and their neighbors is one obvious drawback to keeping a tiger at home. "No matter how tame a tiger might seem, it isn't tame," says Richard Lattis, director of New York City's Bronx Zoo. "Dogs and cats have been bred for thousands of years to live with humans. Tigers haven't. They're wild animals...
...former staffers to run his operation. Now that he?s won the job, it seems likely that he?ll bring many former Wilsonians to Sacramento with him - a smart move, because they already have relationships with legislators and bureaucrats there - the people Schwarzenegger spent his campaign bashing. One potential drawback: people might suspect Schwarzenegger is a figurehead with all these more experienced hands around him - something some Democrats still whisper about Bush - so the Terminator needs to occasionally remind people who?s in charge...
...It’s more of an option in case the science classes bomb,” the newfound shopping period afficionado said. “There’s no drawback to just wandering into a class here and hearing what the professor said...