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...overtime pay. Consider Melanie Mancebo. A recruiter for Atlanta-based IT staffing-and-consulting company AGSI, she's so exhausted from 10-hour days and weekend work that when she gets home, around 8:30 p.m., she heads straight to bed. Mancebo, 34, whose job is to hire tech talent, also handles research, sales and client relations. "We've always done a lot of pitching in around here," she says, "but now more than ever. It's definitely tiring." AGSI has imposed a hiring freeze and has upped productivity 23% over 12 months...
Agilent Technologies, a Palo Alto, Calif., electronics and tech manufacturer, made Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For this year--despite having announced 20% job cuts of 8,000. At the time, employees rallied around management to fight to save the company. But unlike Dell, Agilent continues to struggle, and the surviving workers are feeling the strain. Steve Peterson, 55, a global online-support manager, says, "We are just really working hard and are discouraged that things are not better...
Some employers have managed to avoid layoffs altogether by asking all their workers to sacrifice. Patrice Tanaka, 50, who runs her own New York City public-relations firm, began trimming costs last year by deferring tech upgrades and bonuses. She then snipped staff perks like free bagel breakfasts, ice cream, yoga--even the fresh flowers that once perfumed the loft offices. It wasn't enough. In a last-ditch effort to hold on to her staff of 40, she asked her partners to swallow a 20% pay cut and other workers to forgo 10%. "It's not a Utopia...
...health began to fail in the 1990s, the pair stepped up to take his place. Wilson had been co-producing since 1985's A View to a Kill, and Barbara had been an assistant director and associate producer in the 1980s (see box). Their first effort: GoldenEye, a high-tech, high-speed 1995 hit that proved 007 could compete with the big-bang action pictures while keeping some of his cheeky, retro spirit. Since then, the competition has only got brasher and more explosive, with plenty of pretenders to the throne--most recently, Vin Diesel's XXX, a postmodern grunge...
...NATO is financial: Western weapons manufacturers win a few more clients as the new members upgrade their systems to NATO standards. Last week Lithuania signed an agreement to buy a Stinger anti-aircraft missile system from the U.S., thus becoming the first Baltic state to purchase the high-tech weaponry. Under the agreement, the Lithuanians will acquire 60 missiles at a cost of $31 million over three years. Lithuanian officials say the Stingers will reinforce the country's airborne defenses and help protect the Ignalina nuclear power plant from attack. But from whom? With the exception of terrorists, Baltic officials...