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...another idea. What if employers made all employee salaries known? If you think about it, who is served by all the secrecy? Not you. It might irk you to learn that the junior analyst in the next cube really can afford his Bora Bora honeymoon-but that's all the more ammunition to gun for a raise. Transparency even benefits management, says Dave Cervone, a compensation expert at Challenger, Gray & Christmas. When he posted the staff salaries at a Chicago investment bank, he found that workers liked knowing where they stood. "It took away the mystery so they could focus...
...meets its specs. "We have high quality standards for elements like our tacos and ground beef and cheese, and trying to match those in each of these countries is not easy," says Allan. So for now, Taco Bell Mexico imports taco shells from the U.S., a fact that might irk consumers in the birthplace of the taco. But Allan stresses that the tactic is a stopgap; importing basic supplies is expensive and time-consuming. "In the long run, it's not sustainable," he says...
...reason for his cult status as an architecture critic was not the clarity of Herbert Muschamp's prose, which was known to irk readers with its effusive, stream-of-consciousness style. Instead, by freely celebrating the emotional impact of skyscrapers and other structures, the author and longtime New York Times critic changed the way people think about architecture. In a characteristically exuberant 1997 article that brought him national attention, he likened Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, to Marilyn Monroe. (The building had a "voluptuous style" and an apparent urge to "let its dress...
...action hero niche that ex-wrestlers and body-builders seem to fall into after their initial career plateaus. Austin is not a man of many words in the film, but when he does speak, the other characters listen—mostly due to his expert attack moves. What does irk me is that instead of letting the film simply be the adventure that it is—113 minutes of Stone Cold takin’ names and kickin’ ass—director Scott Wiper attempts to add depth and symbolism to film as well. Unfortunately...
Would this Administration be willing to pursue either of these moves? At this stage it doesn't seem likely. The first measure would provoke howls from many Cuban exiles in Florida, while the second would irk U.S. business interests that would face competition from Brazilian imports. But if Richard Nixon could go to China, perhaps George W. Bush could discover Brazil--and stop making a failed Caribbean dictator an important element of U.S. policy. It could be that an embattled, second-term U.S. President looking for a legacy other than a botched attempt at installing democracy in faraway lands could...