Word: lateraling
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...adapting flexible policies, such as letting staffers who have used up all their paid days off borrow from next year's allotment, telecommute or make up the lost time in other ways. The important thing, he says, is to follow government guidelines, send your employee home, and worry later how and if to pay them...
...mates back in newcastle, where he was born, and at Eton, where he was schooled, knew him as Mark, a soccer fanatic who later scored first-class honors at Oxford. Today, Thailand's urbane Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, says he dreamed of leading his Southeast Asian nation ever since he was a little boy, but he still seems more comfortable roaming the corridors of international diplomacy than engaging in the rough-and-tumble politics of his homeland. Just days ago, the 45-year-old economist headed to New York City to hobnob with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly...
...their investigation into the brutal slaying of a Yale University medical student. Police charged Raymond Clark III, a laboratory technician, with strangling Annie Le, 24, on Sept. 8 in the Yale lab where they both worked. Her body was found in a crawl space behind a wall five days later, on what was to be her wedding day. That heartrending coincidence and Le's promising future helped attract national attention to the Ivy League crime...
...local tribes, some of which have a habit of kidnapping foreign tourists to use as bargaining chips in disputes with the central government. Such hostages were rarely harmed until this June, when nine foreigners were kidnapped - including two German women and a South Korean woman whose mutilated bodies were later discovered by shepherds. After the attack, the government effectively stopped granting permission to foreigners - including journalists - to travel anywhere but the capital, Sana'a, and the coastal region around the port city of Aden. (See pictures of conflict in Yemen...
Bond earned his bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1955 from Harvard College and his master’s degree in architecture three years later from the Graduate School of Design...