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...typical day office workers are interrupted about seven times an hour, which adds up to 56 interruptions a day, 80% of which are considered trivial, according to time-management experts. "We pride ourselves on being multitaskers, but the truth is, we're functioning at a state of partial attention," says John White, international program director with Priority Management, a training company based in Vancouver, Canada. "Because of constant interruptions, our memory, follow-up ability, flexibility and quality of work start to erode...
Loeb said that activism over a long period of time means being satisfied with partial victories—getting people to talk about what they think, proving to them that what they think is important and reminding them that history can surprise...
...government's stake to under 50% for the first time; on Sept. 2 it was finished. Last month he moved to waive inheritance taxes on sums below €100,000 per estate, suspended a 3% corporate tax, and withstood stiff protests from unions to lay the groundwork for the partial privatization of Electricité de France. He also deplores France's 35-hour workweek, and says it must be changed to allow those who want to work more to do so. And consider the blatant interventionist. Sarkozy brokered the €2 billion state bailout of engineering giant Alstom, angering...
...such as Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld, are hedging by suggesting that the election could simply bypass those areas in which insurgent violence renders safe polling impossible. One or two towns cannot be allowed to hold up a whole nation's progress towards democracy, Rumsfeld argued. The idea of a partial election was quickly challenged by other U.S. officials, and by the Iraqi electoral commission. The problem it raises is not confined to a couple of towns, but potentially to a whole ethnic group; the security situation in much of the Sunni heartland is perilous right now, and it will...
...controversial clause criminalizing adultery that drew criticism from Brussels and threatened to derail the talks. Verheugen is to make a recommendation on whether negotiations on Turkish membership should start in an Oct. 6 report. E.U. leaders will make a final decision in December. Moving Out SYRIA In a partial concession to the U.N., Damascus began withdrawing some 300 of the estimated 16,000 troops it has stationed in Lebanon since 1976. A Sept. 2 U.N. Security Council resolution called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon. The withdrawal was part of a wider redeployment exercise involving a total...