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...steering is out of whack. But alignment also evokes images of living organisms, as when a chiropractor aligns the body, readjusting the skeletal system to restore it to better balance and integration. The alignment of teams and organizations has more to do with the human side of the term than with its mechanistic counterpart...
...journal Psychological Science, sadness can stimulate something this economy badly needs: consumer spending. According to the Department of Commerce, just when the economy was tanking during the third quarter of last year, the personal-savings rate jumped to its highest level in nearly four years. In the long term, a higher savings rate will help prevent future credit meltdowns, but most economists agree that in the short term, we need to stop stuffing paychecks into mattresses. Being sad can help do this because, as the authors put it in the title of the Psychological Science paper, "misery is not miserly...
...looming threat of vacancy prompted the City of Cambridge, which owns the 450-square-foot property, to temporarily extend Hudson’s lease at a reduced price while it solicited bids for long-term occupancy...
Griffin said Muckey’s lease lasts for five years, with an additional five-year term at the discretion of the city. Muckey’s did not return a request for comment for this article...
...prompting the Air Force to ground most of the F-15 fleet. When structural problems—not a pilot error or a freak accident—were determined to be the cause of the crash, General John D.W. Corley announced that “the long-term future of the F-15 is in question.” If F-22 production is not resumed, the Eagle is slated to remain in service until 2025; the consequences of such a move could be devastating...