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...true that many companies offer their departing employees extra incentives in exchange for a promise not to sue. Employment discrimination cases are notoriously difficult to defend, and even meritless cases can be expensive to litigate and damaging to a company’s reputation—Allstate CEO Edward M. Liddy has called them “a plague on corporate America.” But Allstate’s strategy of “fire first, sign waivers later” seems new—and if it succeeds, it could undermine basic protections for American workers...
...homebuyers became more cautious. Even those with secure jobs would suddenly feel poorer. "The debt would still be there, but the wealth would be eroded," says Jonathan Loynes of Capital Economics in London. The other risk is too much consumer-driven growth, which might get Bank of England Governor Edward George worried enough about inflation to push rates, and thus mortgage payments, back up - again, tamping down both spending and property markets. One of these two things is certain to happen eventually; how damaging it is depends on how abruptly it comes...
Mellon Professor of the Sciences Edward O. Wilson, last year’s recipient, presented Ford with the award—a white marble dove—at the ceremony held at the New England Aquarium. The two men have known each other for years through their work in the environment...
...Edward Wood may be the Worst, but Oscar Micheaux is the Baddest - with all that that implies. ... Scenes climax in a cubist explosion of herky-jerky jump cuts wherein an actor appears in a succession of slightly askew angles. ... Actors play multiple roles, some characters seem blessed with precognition while others get marooned in alternate universes. ... Lines are delivered in unison, there are awkwardly failed attempts at overlapping dialogue, some actors appear to be reciting by rote or reading cue cards.... Left stranded in scenes that are grossly overextended, his performers strike fantastic poses, stare affectingly into space, or gaze...
...shirts and its use for proms, bar mitzvahs and weddings. "Impress your guests," one ad says, "by serving a state dinner prepared by a chef to five Presidents." A bride wanting that Rose Garden glow can Rent-A-Gazebo, the same one beneath which Tricia said, "I do," to Edward Cox, the New York lawyer who many think is behind Tricia's efforts...