Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...running in half an hour--but when I rebooted my system, I was unable to launch Linux, apparently because my hard drive is too big. (Don't ask. I consulted a long-time Linux user for help, and even he couldn't figure it out.) Since Caldera doesn't offer free phone support, I sent e-mail to the help desk; weeks went by with no answer. I have since given up. That's a shame, because once it was running, Linux lived up to its hype. It never crashed, though it did look at me funny once or twice...
...trend signals an important sea change in the U.S. Even now, only 1 out of 5 small businesses offers full retirement benefits to employees, while 2 out of 3 workers for large companies enjoy a plan. "Small-business owners don't have the same luxury of time or resources that a big business has," says Aida Alvarez, administrator of the Small Business Administration in Washington. "In the past, it was easier for them to offer higher wages or other benefits instead...
...accompany a plan designed for businesses that had whole departments dedicated to payroll and benefits. In the end, she relied on the services of an office manager and an outsourced payroll program to administer the benefit. Last year her staff voted to switch to the SIMPLE. In addition to offering easier administration, Lasley says, the SIMPLE was attractive because it doesn't have strict rules about what percentage of employees must participate or how little they can contribute. This gives smaller employers a flexibility that they often need. "The reality is that it's tough to get a 19-year...
...other industries, the challenge isn't persuading employees to contribute; it's keeping up with their demands for even more generous benefits. Keen competition for technical talent convinced Joanne Carthey in 1995 that she needed to offer a 401(k) plan to the 25 employees of her Scottsdale, Ariz., software company, NetPro. "In high tech, if you don't have a plan, your employees just go next door," Carthey says. By 1996, NetPro began offering stock options as a further benefit in order to keep up with its Silicon Valley peers. Employees buy shares in NetPro at a discount, before...
...would want to end the story there, with his release from a Vietnamese POW camp after 5 1/2 years of captivity. His Vietnam saga is, to say the least, riveting: try to imagine being strung up by your broken arms, beaten senseless by your captors and, then, when they offer you the chance to go home, saying no because it would be dishonorable to leave ahead of those captured before you. Despite a 17-year career in Congress, during which he has championed issues such as campaign-finance reform, McCain's defining life experience came three decades...