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...Critics protest that forced ranking can be harsh and arbitrary. But that hasn't kept a growing number of companies from joining such firms as Enron, Ford Motor and Microsoft in adopting them. "What it all boils down to is who is in the room fighting for you," says an Enron worker who was cut from the herd. "I didn't have people there to talk for me, and I felt like I got screwed." Counters Craig Taylor, a manager in Enron's commodity-trading department: "You have to know where you stand, and I believe the system does...
...WHAT SHE LIKES TO READ I like to read a lot of biography; I read mainly fiction and biography. I just finished "Henry and Clara" by Thomas Mallon, which is a historical fiction about the couple who were in the box at Ford's Theatre with Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd...
...Last week a flatbed truck came and hauled away one of the junked cars from in front of the Hermit's one-story cinderblock house, half a mile down the road. Two junked cars remained, resting on blocks in the yard under raggedy trees. The Hermit drove a Ford Falcon station wagon, built about the time that Saigon fell. All the junked cars were Ford Falcons of the same vintage. He cannibalized the junkers when he needed spare parts...
...other day, walking on the road, I noticed that another car had taken up residence in the Hermit's driveway, newer than the Falcon - a Ford sedan, maybe 20 years old, of an indeterminate orange-beige-bronze color that rental car companies used to buy by the thousands long ago. The Hermit has a companion, I decided, jokingly. He has a lover...
...meeting the Kyoto targets. BP has a heavy investment in energy alternatives. There's a lot of support in industry for doing something reasonable to address climate change. Industry is not that reluctant to sign on as long as the playing field is level. It's difficult for Ford to go all the way if that means giving an advantage to its competitors. So the government could level the playing field by creating uniform standards...