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...Houston-based energy-trading company brought in an outside consulting firm to conduct a series of focus groups with some of the remaining workers on how to reinvigorate the sagging firm. One of the first steps, six out of eight people indicated in one session, should be to get rid...
Summers has the right idea because getting rid of grade inflation is the only way to kill the cult of the “sigma” and refocus students from being perfect to actually learning. When the only acceptable grades in popular science courses are A and A-minus, top students are forced to compete brutally for those scores. If the B were restored to its position as an honorable grade, it would take much of the pressure off of those students to “be perfect,” as they have been for their entire careers...
Washington has its own version of the business cycle: when times are good, get rid of pesky regulations that companies complain are holding them back; when things turn sour, start crying for rules. No legislator wants to appear to be blocking reform now, especially in an election year, but previous efforts have faded away when the headlines did. Here are four areas of reform and the hurdles they face...
...Many people contacted us, and we helped them download the McAfee patch to get rid of the virus,” Sultan said...
...destroy Abu Sayyaf, a group that officials say has had ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. In practice, armed with sophisticated munitions and authorized to fire only in self-defense, the Americans seem likely to do everything short of direct combat attacks to help rid the Philippines of this scourge...