Word: smoked
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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...
...boho-and-backpack mecca, the Pass By, tel: (86-10) 8403 8004. But what it lacks in keg care, it more than makes up for in setting and service. Nestled in a lane off Ping'an Dadao near the central lakes, the intimate courtyard bar and caf? offers a smoke-free wing, a carpeted loft and a sunny patio. The owner's pet pig makes the rounds between the Tibetan-chic d?cor with a knowing smirk on its snout...
...surprised by any of it (has a politician ever admitted being surprised by a rival?) and that he's actually doing better at this point than he expected. "There was always going to be some other candidate," he said in an interview, adding that expectations about him were "smoke and mirrors. People looked on paper and said, 'Well, John Kerry is strong.' But in fact I'd never run nationally. I'd never been out there...
...stuck. The room is filling with smoke. I'm scared." PETER ALDERMAN in an e-mail to his mother before he died, sent on his BlackBerry at 9:25 a.m. from the north tower of the World Trade Center, quoted in a newly released 9/11 transcript...
...last days of the Raj, white planters came in their grateful droves, lured by the green hills and tolerable climate. Today, though, this is the domain of Indian agribusiness, and you'll barely see a non-Indian face. The only visitors tend to be from the big smoke of Mumbai or maybe Bangalore?mostly well-off families and couples on quality-time retreats...