Word: taylorism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...softball with fire fighters and autoworkers on a small-town diamond in the heartland. But unknown even to some of Kerry's top aides, something that hadn't been written into the script was quietly taking place inside the luxury campaign bus parked just beyond right field in Taylor, Mich. Secret Service agents were laying secure phone lines, hanging privacy curtains and installing high-tech gear so Kerry could get a top-secret, 40-min. briefing on the intelligence that had prompted the Department of Homeland Security hours earlier to raise the terrorism alert level in New York City...
...star that was difficult to deal with? Liz Taylor. So we'd go in through the back door. We knew more things about celebrities sometimes than they knew themselves. We would have their beautician, we might have their sister, we might have a person in the contracts division of their lawyer, we might have their agent's secretary, we might have their boyfriend or girlfriend...
...stand to make an average of $2.8 million at the estimated share price. Page and Brin themselves are set to make a one-day profit of $130 million each. Another big winner: Yahoo, which invested early in its rival and now has $67 million worth of options. --By Chris Taylor...
...John Taylor, vice president for research and data services at the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, said situations where schools return donors’ money is rare, but added that schools typically comply with such requests...
Like a lot of 15-year-old boys, josh Taylor doesn't care for school. "About the only thing I'm interested in," he grumbles, "is sport." Which rather narrowed the field when it came to choosing something for Year 10 work experience. Ideally, he'd have played footy - Australian Rules - like he does for his club on Sunday afternoons. But that wasn't going to happen. So he arranged what he figured was the next best thing: a stint with the Melbourne Cricket Club, which manages the game's grandest stage. It's a Friday morning and Josh...