Word: focusing
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...next big target. For every employee who makes $75,000, a company typically spends $30,000 more in benefits. So for employees who still have jobs after cost-cutting layoffs, the potential for more pain lies ahead. Health insurance is traditionally the revenue drain that budget hawks focus on, with costs averaging $10,000 per employee (about $6,000 for singles and $14,000 for those supporting a family). "I expect that by January, the number of people without health insurance will rise above 50 million as companies scale back," says Bruce Raynor, president of Unite Here, a labor union...
...biracial woman who is excited about Barack Obama and all of the accomplishments his presidency symbolizes, I can't help but slightly resent just how much focus goes onto his race. I'll teach my children that Obama in the White House was an enormous triumph for acceptance, but I hope that they, like me, will be unable to see why America imposes the racial divides that force us to choose. Jennifer Outler, Cambria Heights, New York...
...share the names they're thinking of with friends, family and readers of weekly newsmagazines because they don't want to be talked out of their choice or have it name-napped. Those people are stupid. Having written many things that people hate, I decided to thoroughly focus-group my work--especially since my wife Cassandra rejected all my first suggestions: Whiskey, Danger, Genghis and Ribo. She also rejected all my names that were Spanish (Pablo, Alejandro), Asian (Hideki, Attila) or Hockey (Teemu, Jaromir, Zigmund), arguing that they "didn't go with Stein," much like how everything I want...
...best advice I got was from Eric Reyes and Whitney Walker, co-authors of The Perfect Baby Name and, for $75, name consultants. They ignore subjective reasoning like name meanings and associations and focus solely on sounds. Walker told me that the strong s or t in my last name would sound nice repeated in the first name, as would the long-i sound. Whatever I choose, she suggested that I Google the name before settling on it. "Just to make sure it's not a porn star or something," she said...
...Instead, it will be part of something that the Crimson’s fans have bad memories of—special teams.Granted, I’m a little biased. I’ve grown up watching Virginia Tech, a team that has moved from obscurity to national prominence by focusing on special teams, patenting a style called “BeamerBall” that lives off finding hidden points in the kicking game. It’s the only school I know where the fans stand up and pay rapt attention whenever the special teams come on the field...