Word: rid
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...quickly, a couple of minor reforms: tell players to get rid of the moldy "gym rat" fad of wearing T shirts under their uniform shirts. This is intended to signify dedication, because if you keep practicing three pointers long after the heat has been turned off, you need a T shirt. But the pros don't dress this way, do they? Also lose the dreary possession arrow and reinstate the jump after a held ball. Little squirts love to try to outjump the big droids, and audiences love to see them do it. Right. And, coach, you up there...
...Says Ronald Cohen, a senior partner of Cohen & Co., a regional accounting firm based in Cleveland, Ohio: "You don't need to worry about the incredible compliance problems and potential litigation if you fire someone." Using disposable workers also means that companies rarely have to train them. Moreover, getting rid of such workers is easy when they don't measure up. Says Robert Uhlaner, senior vice president of Quantum Consulting in Berkeley, California: "You can try them out. The best thing about it is that you never have to face firing people -- because you never really hire them...
...judge agreed and declared the state's indigent-defense system unconstitutional. The ruling is now on appeal before the Louisiana Supreme Court. "This is a test of whether there is justice in the United States," Teissier says. "If you're only going to pay it lip service then get rid of Gideon...
WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING RID OF LIFE'S UNWANTed gifts, fruitcakes and Father's Day ties are best fed to the dog, accidentally lost or -- a method favored by many Americans -- simply passed along to friends. None of these options sufficed, however, when 420 tons of German pesticides were "given" to Romania by a waste-disposal contractor who said the cargo was part of an aid package. In fact, the toxic mess was dumped in the Romanian town of Sibiu. Embarrassed, the German government will begin shipping the chemicals back this week...
...October that it was laying off 1,000 workers. Yet two weeks later, the company admitted that profits would double in 1992. Firms like General Electric and Campbell Soup continued to slash personnel even though they both just had highly profitable years. "There is tremendous peer pressure to get rid of workers," says A. Gary Shilling, an economic consultant. "Everybody's doing it because they think they have...