Word: sweetening
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...bonuses and must sit down with a supervisor to draft a plan for performing better. Salvaging such workers is only prudent, Accenture's Jensen notes, because "it is the 25th man off the bench who may win the baseball game for you." For bench warmers who can't sweeten their swings or improve their fielding, though, the next steps are a severance package and a swift exit from the roster...
...pass Bush's $1.6 trillion tax package later. Two moderate Republicans in the Senate have already called the President's plan excessive, and with the Senate split 50-50 between the parties, the legislation may not have enough votes to pass in current form. But if the G.O.P. can sweeten Bush's tax bill by adding $60 billion in cuts for 2001, Republicans could get more of what they want in a single piece of legislation...
...national missile defense system and, more immediately, its proposed sale of destroyers equipped with the sophisticated Aegis anti-missile system to Taiwan. Comments by Bush administration hawks - most notably Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's recommendation that containing China become the strategic focus of U.S. military doctrine - have done little to sweeten the atmosphere in which U.S. diplomats must now persuade their Chinese counterparts to hand back the crew and the plane. Taking a look around the plane will certainly be tempting to the Chinese military, since the EP-3 is on Taiwan's shopping list...
...says California representative Ellen Tauscher, new vice chair of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. "It looked like Big Government picking winners and losers." Instead, the Democrats will offer across-the-board cuts - but no more than $900 billion of them - with the cuts weighted toward lower-income taxpayers. To sweeten the deal, Daschle and Gephardt may also propose trimming payroll taxes, the money taken from paychecks to fund Social Security and Medicare, a bigger hit than income taxes for 80 percent of working Americans...
PROZAC NATION Just because it seems as if antidepressants are doled out like candy doesn't mean they always sweeten things up. A survey finds that 70% of patients treated for depression by primary-care physicians think their medication doesn't fully alleviate their symptoms. And because of side effects such as reduced sex drive, one-fifth of patients skip doses and half stop taking the pills altogether. Among those who discussed side effects with their doctor, 20% said their complaints were ignored. If you're depressed, medication can help. If your doctor is not helping, find another...