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...rife, it's generally management's fault. While the bosses are waiting for every department to sign off on a decision, leaks spring, and worried staff members start spinning. "After so much downsizing," she says, "there are fewer employees left. They feel overworked, without control and in a negative spiral...
Well, sure. And, arguably, likable people gossip less and others trust them more, generating enthusiasm and causing procrastination to wither. But what if anxious workers overeat and fall into a depressive spiral? What if a team leader dons saffron robes and insists that everyone chant? No doubt there's a consultant to help with that...
...album gets its title (“First--Chill--then Stupor--then the letting go”).Indeed, the standout track, “Cursed Sleep,” might be the most musically complex piece to ever carry Oldham’s name. Violins ascend while cellos spiral downwards, the melody darts from wall to wall in a careful pattern, and Dawn McCarthy’s counterpoint vocals plead out variations of the song’s title over and over and over again. Meanwhile, Will narrates a primordial, but endlessly complex, human scene: lovers lying...
...King expressed concern that the region's troubles could multiply with the crises over Iraq and Iran. He expressed fears of civil war in Iraq "if it continues to spiral," and while voicing concern about Iran's influence, he cautioned against the thought of American military action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. "I don't think the Middle East could afford another war," he said. "A war with Iran would sort of open a Pandora's Box and one that I don't think the Middle East would recover from...
...loyalists, with the support of foreign terrorists linked to al-Qaeda. But increasingly what was happening in Iraq was a sectarian war between the Sunni minority and the Shi'ite majority. The country that Americans had set out to democratize had, on closer inspection, voted to break apart. A spiral of tit-for-tat massacres in ethnically mixed Baghdad and the surrounding provinces ensured that the disintegration would happen in the bloodiest possible way. By the summer of 2006, despite the successful formation of a democratically elected government in Baghdad, Iraqis were dying at a rate of more than...