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...work their cooks to the bone and pay them very little money, and the owners get rich," says Chang, who started his truck with a friend who attends Columbia's School of Business. Compared with restaurants, trucks have a lot less overhead, don't require managing a staff and focus on lunch, freeing chefs from working late nights and weekends. "I was a chef instructor here in Seattle for a year, and half the students don't want to work in restaurants," says Henderson. "In the next two years, you're going to see a ton of these popping...
...dead at privately held companies, where broad-based stock-ownership plans (ESOPs) are still popular and well funded. If you're changing jobs, keep that in mind. At public companies, meanwhile, you can still command options or restricted shares if you are a top performer. "But most people should focus on their benefits, like a cash bonus, a raise and the 401(k) match," says David Broman, CEO of pay consultant Syzygy. "Companies are in the driver's seat...
...think the courtside dress code you put in place [in 2005] has had a positive effect? -Michael Blackwell, Cedar Falls, IowaI do. I viewed it as an opportunity to say to our players that there is this issue of respect, and we just have to wake up and focus on that. It's not the draconian dress code that people came to believe it was. You would have thought I'd said you had to wear a tuxedo or tails to a game...
...slides, it’s like reading Shakespeare from CliffsNotes. In the end, you have to see the original work to not only appreciate it, but also to understand it.”Van der Velden, who plans to organize a sophomore excursion to Spain next year, says the focus of the seminar, and therefore the location of the trip, will change annually. Depending on what the class studies—the HAA department teaches on broad artistic subjects from Mesopotamian archaeology to Japanese woodblock prints—students will be able to view works from relevant sites abroad.This year...
...Despite the conservatives' focus on threats from abroad, these elections come at a time of great economic hardship for many Iranians, with double-digit inflation curbing their annual New Year's shopping spree that usually occurs around this time. That has prompted a number of candidates promoting themselves as dard-ashna, a new campaign catch-phrase whose translation vaguely echoes Bill Clinton's 1992 line, "I feel your pain...