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...their employers to recognize them for who they are--their firm's chief resource. Every company that is worth anything derived that worth from the efforts, knowledge and ingenuity of its employees. These companies could not have grown without them, and will not experience any meaningful progress by getting rid of good workers. Corporations may have bought themselves some quick profits by slashing payroll, but in return they have created a monster in the form of employees who no longer have any level of dedication or loyalty to their bosses. After the payroll cuts are over, a company will have...
...highest. Italy, although more entrepreneurial than Spain, has similar laws and an unemployment rate of 12%. Textile-factory boss Marina Salaman of Treviso needs new staff but admits, "A lot of times I hold off hiring because once you've hired someone, it's very hard to get rid of them." Or to keep them. Germany, with some of the top manufacturing pay in the world ($32 an hour, including fringe benefits), is in a panic over rising joblessness, at 11.1% the highest since World War II, because investment is moving to lower-cost places...
...then you have a guy sitting 4 or 5 ft. away from you. I'm in a 15-ft. by 15-ft. cage. You can't run. You can't do sit-ups. There is no other way to vent. I had no way of getting rid of my stress...
...corgi looks as if it were put together with the unrelated body parts of three or four other breeds--the parts, as it happens, that each breed most longed to get rid of when it looked in the mirror every morning. ("If I could just get some other dog to take this little sausage of a torso, I could go places on these legs...
...effort that would virtually rid the University of an obvious separation between Quad and River residents or black and white, this year is the first try at randomizing upper-class housing. First-years may "block" with up to 16 people of either sex and room with up to the same number of the same sex. While next year students will live in a house that already has an identity--artistic, athletic or whatever--in about three years, the houses theoretically will be completely mixed...