Word: sacking
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...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...
Frank Sinatra collapsed on a Richmond, Virginia, stage while performing his trademark My Way. Complaining of the heat, the singer fell to the floor "like a sack of stones," recalled a concert-goer. He is recovering in California...
...Lawrence E. Stager we've picked up a sack...
...trend in sports these days is toward the colorless. The National Football League has spent the last three years cracking down on touchdown and sack dances. National Basketball Association players brought new meaning to the term "free expression" for a long time, but the league's new trash-talking rules seem designed to send America's most entertaining sport into the doldrums as well. And in the meantime, the Freshman Dean's Office cancels a harmless game of "Assassin" because it's not in keeping with "Harvard's image...
...more facts have emerged about the struggle over the museum, it has become clear that Knowles' decision to sack the museum's 10-member staff--a decision presumably sanctioned by President Neil L. Rudenstine--was not a tough-minded act of courage, but a misguided act of cowardice in the face of a tenured professor's power play. As Lecturer on Social Studies Martin H. Peretz, who has served on several museum committees, wrote on this page last week, "This is an ugly story...