Word: forthings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There's a niceness campaign overtaking corporate America. It's called the No Asshole Rule, a mantra set forth in a current business best seller of the same title. It is already practiced by the most esteemed employers of the day--Google, Southwest Airlines--and is finding followers even where being a jerk was part of the job description. If the campaign is won, soon all but the pleasantest of us will be banished from the workplace. And I, for one, will be sorry...
...black community, or you can do something else, but you can’t do them both. I don’t think that was anyone’s deliberate impression to give people. Now that that is being realized, I think greater efforts are being put forth, within the greater Harvard community, to really show people the opportunities. I’m certainly a proponent for people understanding that it’s not one or the other; it’s preferably both...
...Harvard Design School professor Alex Krieger, who said that he has “spent seven years trying to improve City Hall Plaza,” contends that none of the current back-and-forth argument will have any effect on when the new City Hall is built...
...knows the days and hours of the flower, the lifespan of the petal, the very moment when the cherry blossoms burst forth...
...Moscow, the deal, while lucrative, was not only about money, according to George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "They don't want to alienate the Iranians politically, and they don't want to lose business in nuclear exports, arms exports, and so forth," says Perkovich. "Perhaps as important, Russia has a desire to create an OPEC for natural gas, which is only possible with close Iranian-Russian cooperation. They don't want to jeopardize that, either...