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...talk to - maybe someone in HR but more likely your boss or another manager you peg as particularly sympathetic - make your request in as businesslike a way as possible. If the firm is going to continue to profit from a big client you landed even after you're gone, mention that. It should be worth something extra. If leaving means forgoing certain pension benefits, ask to be compensated in cash. If you moved to a new city for your job and now you'll probably leave, ask the company to pay for relocation. (See the worst business deals...
...Throughout it all, just make sure to keep a pleasant, professional tone. In negotiations, a threatening posture almost always backfires, says Ury. Hiring a lawyer or other adviser is a fine idea - but there's no need to mention to your employer that you've done that unless talks take an uncivil turn. Creating a paper trail is always a good idea: after each meeting, summarize what you were told and send an e-mail to the person who told it you, asking for confirmation that you understood all the points correctly...
...reasons in favor of Geithner's proposals are too numerous to mention. Among them, and perhaps at the top of the list, is that proper regulation would have prevented all of the events which caused the credit crisis, and, perhaps in turn, the recession. It is impossible to say whether that is true, but it sounds true, which is even better. (Vote for the 2009 TIME 100 Finalists...
...bank listed some of those measures: Russia has raised tariffs on used cars, Argentina imposed new licensing arrangements for imports, China banned Irish pork, India banned Chinese toys. No fewer than 13 countries have granted subsidies to various parts of the automobile industry. And the bank didn't mention the nasty spat that has broken out between the U.S and Mexico; the U.S. has stopped a program that allowed Mexican trucks on American roads, and Mexico has retaliated with tariff increases. Said World Bank president Robert Zoellick: "Leaders must not heed the siren song of protectionist fixes. Economic isolationism...
...coming," says Richard Wiles, the Democratic sheriff of El Paso County, Texas, which sits across the Rio Grande from Juárez, Mexico - a city that has seen almost 2,000 drug-related murders since the start of 2008, with many of the victims being police officers, not to mention the epidemic of kidnappings and extortion. (Nationwide, Mexico had almost 7,000 narco-killings during that time.) Says Wiles: "It's a shame that it took so many killings in our sister city to give these issues the national attention they're getting...