Word: robbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sole issue is the safety of our employees," responded Rob Doughty, a spokesman at Pizza Hut's Dallas headquarters, who accused school officials of "reacting to emotion." He says the company works out its "trade area restrictions" based on crime statistics. Nevertheless, he says, two Pizza Hut drivers have been killed on the job in the past six weeks--both in presumably safe areas. One murder occurred in Sacramento, California, the other in Salt Lake City, Utah. Regularly scheduled deliveries of the sort Pizza Hut bid on in Kansas City, Doughty claims, can be done safely with more than...
...merely going on as we are now couldn't be more shortsighted," says Rob Shapiro, the Progressive Policy Institute vice president who helped define the economic prescriptions Clinton embraced five years ago. In theory, the nation's companies should understand this best and should therefore be leading the charge toward comprehensive training on the job. "Since better-trained workers are usually more productive, markets should provide all the incentives" for companies to make economically efficient training decisions, says Shapiro. Unfortunately, in the real world, businesses invest less in training their workers than logic would demand, mostly because workers are free...
...poisoned the collaborative hacker ethos of the early days of personal computing. In his book Startup, Jerry Kaplan describes creating a handwriting-based system. Gates was initially friendly, he writes, and Kaplan trusted him with his plans, but he eventually felt betrayed when Gates announced a similar, competing product. Rob Glaser, a former Microsoft executive who now runs the company that makes RealAudio, an Internet sound system, is an admirer who compliments Gates on his vision. But, he adds, Gates is "pretty relentless. He's Darwinian. He doesn't look for win-win situations with others, but for ways...
...Higdon innocently slapped the puck deep behind the RPI net during a Crimson power play. RPI goaltender Joel Laing went behind his net to make the play; the puck, however, had second thoughts, hitting a friendly slab of the back boards and bouncing onto the stick of sophomore Rob Millar. The tap-in goal was Millar's eighth of the season and gave Harvard a lead it never relinquished. RPI 1 Harvard...
...tough call. We certainly have love for this place, but for every person who loves the Tasty, there are 97 who have never heard of it," said Rob Thiel, an employee at the restaurant...