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...applaud other countries with weak currencies and large deficits when they adopt austerity measures, sack bureaucrats and reduce the size of their government deficits. In places like Chile and Argentina, these harsh moves have begun to pay off in rising standards of living. But America continues to spend too much and to save too little, and the falling dollar is the world's way of canceling our credit card...
...popcorn during "Opening Day" day, but I remember that incident quite well. I ate in the now-defunct smoking room all year, and on "Opening Day" day, Matt was dressed in a red and blue striped uniform that said Harvard Dining Services or something on it with a big sack full of peanuts and popcorn. He stood in the front of the smoking room, screaming at full volume, "Peanuts! Popcorn! Get yer peanuts and popcorn here!" It was quite a sight...
...more facts have emerged about the struggle over the museum, it has become clear that [Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles'] decision to sack the museum's 10-member staff...was not a tough-minded act to courage, but a misguided act to cowardice in the fact of a tenured professor's power play...
...handful of wealthy families who directly or indirectly support the junta maintain their near monopolies on items exempted from the blockade, such as cooking oil, rice and sugar -- and are profiting handsomely. The Brandts control the market in flour, which shot up from $43 to $50 a sack, and have a corner on the country's chicken industry. The Mevs family continues to add on to a fuel depot capable of holding 50 million gal. Their cement business is booming as black-market millionaires build new homes. The Madsens are doing big business in humanitarian food at their shipping terminal...
...specific employees, typically a depressed, explosively angry individual who is drinking heavily, ostentatiously collecting guns, or threatening corporate officials -- or all three. The FBI suggests this management technique: send the problem person for counseling. If someone must be let go, be sure the firing is done with sensitivity (never sack by letter, agents warn). Above all, provide retraining and job-placement help. "These are desperate people who feel they've reached the end of their rope," says Van Zandt. "We ought to give them a few more feet...