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Critics say rank and yank can be used as a smoke screen for downsizing or simply dumping older workers who populate the lower rankings. Ford and Goodyear dropped their forced-ranking systems after a number of discrimination lawsuits. GE is using its grading practice to cut labor costs, says a former manager in the medical division. He says he was pressured to identify employees as "Code 4s" (on a 1-to-4 ranking scale, with 4 being worst) and "get rid of them. I never had 10% of my workers who were Code 4s, but I had to come...
...tend to hang out in dungeons, so the ones in Boktai are conveniently equipped with skylights for that extra jolt when a player's in a tight spot. (The brighter it is in the real world, the more virtual light streams through the skylights.) One drawback: the Game Boy screen gets washed out in direct sunlight, but angling the unit prevents that problem...
Sitting in Father Innokentiy’s office beneath brightly colored icons, the monks lean in to look at their Sony computer screen...
...four-hour documentaries that are their own kind of classics. Now he is making a big Hollywood picture about Howard Hughes, a giant figure in business, aviation and movies. And he has signed Leonardo DiCaprio, star of the biggest hit in Hollywood history, to bring the legend to screen life...
...mines of South Pennsylvania before serving as a tail gunner in World War II. Longing to escape the deprivations of his childhood, he went to Hollywood and landed supporting roles in The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and The Dirty Dozen. In Europe, Bronson made movies that fixed his screen persona as a menacing yet vulnerable protagonist. The quintessential Bronson film was 1974's Death Wish, in which he played a liberal architect turned vigilante after his daughter was raped and his wife killed by street toughs?a role Bronson reprised in four more films...