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Touborg said the University decided to fire and rehire many employees because their job descriptions had changed. Many of the new jobs are at a higher level than the old jobs, although Touborg acknowledged that some of the old lower-level employees were hired for those new jobs...
That campaign has borne little fruit, in part because Wal-Mart's wages are competitive with those paid by rivals such as Kmart and Target. Wal-Mart offers health benefits, and its stock plan has been a wealth builder for many lower-level employees, at least until the market crashed. Still, Wal-Mart is regarded as offering ample opportunities for advancement. Charlyn Jarrells Porter, who heads the Wal-Mart division that deals with personnel issues, says two-thirds of its managers come from the ranks of store associates, which is what Wal-Mart calls all employees. This year the company...
...rise of a gangster class of guns for hire. Officials from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority met in Cairo last week to discuss an agreement to end suicide bombings. But Arafat canceled plans to send his usual troubleshooter, Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Mahmoud Abbas, and sent lower-level officials instead. Hamas responded by pulling back its top man, Khaled Meshaal. Even the limited progress reported at the meeting was condemned in a communique issued in Gaza by Hamas and Islamic Jihad--joined, significantly, by the Ahmed Abu Reesh Brigades and the Salahuddin Brigades, both splinter militias of Fatah...
...books partnerships was enough reason to question Enron's future health. If Andersen's lead accountant wasn't worried, why should Lay have been concerned? "Duncan definitely harmed the case against Lay," says former prosecutor and Houston securities lawyer Christopher Bebel. On the other hand, he says, lower-level Enron executives facing charges won't find much solace in the transcripts...
...judges whose ideology differs from their own. Senate Democrats defend themselves by noting that 40 of President Bush’s 92 judicial nominees have been approved (not itself a very encouraging number), but they neglect to mention that the majority of these approvals were of nominees to lower-level district court positions. According to the Wall Street Journal, of Bush’s 29 appeals court nominees, only a paltry seven have been approved. That is especially alarming given that the Judicial Conference of the United States has deemed 11 of these openings “judicial emergencies...