Word: helpful
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...think about your job, you free yourself up for new ideas about how to restructure your workday time and energy. Take an IT worker who hates dealing with technologically incompetent callers. He might enjoy teaching more than customer service. By spending more time instructing colleagues - and treating help-line callers as curious students of tech - the disgruntled IT person can make the most of his 9-to-5 position. (See TIME's special "Planning for Retirement...
...part of HAMP that would most work to help these people has been incredibly slow to get off the ground. Back in May, the Treasury Department announced that it would issue guidelines on how lenders might speed up dealing with borrowers who simply want to hand back the deed to their house or sell their home for less than is owed on the mortgage (a so-called short sale). Distressed homeowners and housing counselors have long complained about short sales being scuttled by lenders that take too long to respond to a potential buyer's offer. The plan to beef...
...tell how much damage the controversy has done to Toyota's image for quality and reliability. "Every company rests its business on a few pillars. For Toyota, one of the key pillars is quality," Cole says. "How you manage the issue becomes very critical." It certainly didn't help that the accelerator recall also follows by one day the recall of 100,000 Toyota-made pickup trucks because of rust problems. Toyota is rated the highest in dependability among all automakers and has won more quality awards than any other automaker. Its vehicles also routinely top Consumer Reports' recommendations list...
Burt first began teaching a science fiction class at Macalester College in Minnesota, where he drafted his reading list with the help of several students. He brought the course with him to Harvard and taught it for the first time in Fall...
...It’s true that if you study 18th century poetry that you can acquire skills that will help you read Victorian fiction and skills that will help you read contemporary graphic novels,” Burt says. “But we teach 18th century poetry because 18th century poetry is worth studying in and of itself. Science fiction is an end in and of itself...