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...thoughts to yourself. Ask questions. At the risk of sounding adversarial - and I don't like to do that because I'm a huge booster of the HR profession - these people have a script. HR and the layoff managers are war-gamed against a script because they need to protect themselves legally. If you only ask questions, in a really calm way, you can get them to move off-script. And when they move off-script, they could say something that you can use in your favor. Not necessarily against them, but certainly in your favor. So don't sign...
...post-9/11 need for security led to secret requirements for onboard jammers to thwart radars and missiles. Then there was the required shielding to help protect the choppers' electronic guts from being fried by electromagnetic pulses generated by nuclear blasts (as well as separate systems to protect against biological and chemical weapons). Pentagon officials say the VH-71 isn't so much a modified EH-101 as it is a "whole new helicopter." Then, of course, there was the kitchen and bathroom for the 14 passengers (the new choppers can fly 300 miles, triple the range of the current...
HUPD officials declined to comment on the ongoing investigation. “It is our policy in conforming with state law and best practices for police agencies to protect the right of victims in sexual assault cases. We do not give comment unless there is a continuing public safety threat,” wrote HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano in an e-mail yesterday...
...always reach the conclusion that regulation is too costly to impose. "It's true that cost-benefit analysis has been used in a very anti-regulatory way," says Michael A. Livermore, co-author, with Richard L. Revesz, of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Enviroment and Our Health. "But cost-benefit analysis can be fixed to be more of a neutral tool." And in the midst of a severe economic downturn, he says, "it's going to be essential to have a strong cost-benefit analysis in support of any regulation as a way of selling...
...Mohammed's return to the area has already brought visible changes. "It's the first time in nearly two years I'm seeing police in uniform out on the streets and in their cars," says laborer Tahir Ali. "They used to be without uniform, sometimes too busy protecting themselves to protect the rest...