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...performance. Sun CEO Scott McNealy is known around the company for saying the bottom 10% is where you "love them to death." But any workers who don't respond to McNealy's love are offered death in the form of "prompt exit" severance, which they turn down at their peril, since those who continue to be found wanting face dismissal without compensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rank And Fire | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...Sayyaf's stroll to safety revealed the military's ham-handedness?the commander who botched the siege was fired?and indefinitely prolonged the hostages' deadly peril. Moreover, it proved that Arroyo's frequently reiterated rhetorical resolve was not enough, and that Abu Sayyaf is likely to continue to be a plague on the country for a long time to come. It's a cruel group: after their escape last week, the kidnappers beheaded two Filipinos?a cook and security guard seized in the raid on the Dos Palmas tourist resort in the western province of Palawan. Speaking by sat phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perpetually Perilous | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...performance. Sun CEO Scott McNealy is known around the company for saying the bottom 10% is where you "love them to death." But any workers who don't respond to McNealy's love are offered death in the form of "prompt exit" severance, which they turn down at their peril, since those who continue to be found wanting face dismissal without compensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rank And Fire | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...ships in Pearl Harbor, with great seriousness. For the record, Dan Ackroyd doesn't play Bratton in the movie but a Bratton-like figure named Thurman. This is presumably because, were he playing Bratton, he would never have told his superiors that he felt Pearl was in gravest peril. Bratton did think that "the Japanese were showing unusual interest in the port," but he also thought they would not, finally, "go out of [their] way deliberately to attack an American installation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What Really Happened | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

Phelan’s Dismissal Puts Harvard Arts in Peril...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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