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Dougenik says the motivations behind the frequent teambuilding and planning meetings were good, but the meetings themselves sometimes added extra stress...
Viewed in that fashion, the New Economy is nothing more than a fancy term for the basic infrastructure that allows consumers and companies across the globe to shop, work and play at Internet speed. In New York City, for example, travel agencies routinely farm out chores like updating frequent-flyer miles to online boutiques as far away as India. "All our activities from consumption to production are unalterably changed," says Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics. "In that sense, the New Economy is for real, and it's here forever...
...Microsoft, all done over the past six years. In every case Brill asked, How does the physical environment contribute to workers' job satisfaction and performance, both individual and team? "The single most powerful factor," Brill found, "is the ability to concentrate on work without distraction. The second is frequent, informal interactions between workers. These themes need to be balanced." Consider, says Brill, that at least half of all professionals' time is spent doing quiet, focused work, and two-thirds of people in open offices are disturbed by others' conversations. Offices that have no enclosures, he declares, are "ludicrous...
Gere plays the title role: Dr. Sullivan Travis, gynecologist extraordinaire. Dr. T, as he is affectionately dubbed by the Dallas socialites who frequent his practice, is a man completely surrounded by women. He happily drifts along in his sea of XX chromosomes-females dominate Dr. T's life and he is completely comfortable with this fact. He is a pleasant and charismatic, a loving father, and a devoted husband. Dr. T is The Perfect Male, so much so that his wife, Kate (played by Farrah Fawcett, who fleshes out her loopy David Letterman appearance persona into a full-fledged character...
...guerrilla movement calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army - are a fertile breeding ground, given their poor sanitation. Whereas a previous outbreak in the Congo in 1995 was ultimately contained, health officials are concerned that it could spread more rapidly in the Ugandan region, where there is much more frequent movement of people, particularly refugees from the LRA. Indeed, guerrilla attacks since the current outbreak have not only spread refugees far and wide, they've also involved the kidnapping of a number of potentially infected people, prompting fears that the initial attempts to quarantine victims in the Gulu and Kitgum...