Word: loses
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Each year U.S. businesses lose as much as $40 billion to employees who steal. To protect their profit margins, many hard-hit companies have resorted to routine polygraph screening of workers and job applicants. But the scientific validity of these devices has never been proved, and the tests have sometimes caused harm to people who are falsely implicated. Such is the case of Shama Holleman, a college student who took a job in 1987 as a part-time cashier for Alexander's department-store chain in New York City. After a month as a model employee, she was fired because...
...prohibition is a huge setback for the polygraph industry, which is expected to lose about 85% of its $100 million in annual revenues. But the new law is a boon for firms that offer two other character tests: pencil-and-paper quizzes and graphology, or handwriting analysis. Says Eric Zorn, senior vice president of the Jamesway discount-store chain: "I'm very unhappy about the new law, but I'm thankful we can still use written tests...
...Athletic Department does not place enormous pressure on coaches to win, says men's soccer Coach Mike Getman. "I don't have the feeling that if I lose tomorrow I'm going to be fired," Getman says...
...have been losing money on every sandwich we sell," said Dershowitz. Dershowitz said the partners of the deli had anticipated that Maven's would lose money shortly after opening, but they had not expected the restaurant to remain in the red for as long...
...priced and directed toward the needs of consumers. "America is probably the world's greatest innovator nation," says Robert White, president of the National Academy of Engineering, "but we don't have the ability to capture the benefits of those scientific discoveries." The risk is that the U.S. will lose its competitive advantage even before the marketing contest has begun...