Word: potted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...including AT&T and Xerox, now offer these plans, which cover close to 10 million workers nationwide. Two weeks ago giant Citigroup disclosed that it too is making the changeover; the week before, CBS made the switch as part of a comprehensive benefits overhaul. Both firms are sweetening the pot with stock options to keep workers focused on performance rather than longevity. IBM is reportedly contemplating a similar change that would save $200 million a year...
After spending five years as a construction-site manager at Korea's giant conglomerate Samsung, Chung Hwan Oak was used to giving orders, not taking them. So making sales calls for his new catering business was hard on his pride. After bowing deeply, Chung, 49, would pitch his hot-pot lunches--steaming vegetables with shrimp and fiery pepper sauce--then explain how he had lost his Samsung job. Often people slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew that in status-conscious Korea, Samsung...
...mood for High Times, the magazine for pot smokers (this week featuring the Beastie Boys' DJ Mix Master Mike), then you can also find books on Bill Clinton, environmentalism and exercise...
...privileges. Culturally offended by Chinese language instruction? Philosophically opposed to scientific research on animals? Concerned about Harvard's financial investments in oil companies? Demand a refund of whatever insignificant portion of your fees support these endeavors! At modern universities like Harvard with their hands in every educational pot--what former U.C. Berkeley Chancellor Clark Kerr referred to as the "multiversity"--opt-out schemes become terribly infeasible...
...Chinese censors and their 10% fine be damned. With her sad, lovely, expert film, Chen may not have a pot of gold, but she has a rainbow...