Word: tested
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Large corporations can do a lot on their own to become more nimble. One way is to stimulate employee innovation by providing entrepreneurial incentives. Under the IDEA program at Texas Instruments, workers who propose promising ideas are given the time and resources to test them. One result: the development of gallium arsenide, a material with the properties of silicon but able to withstand higher temperatures. Big companies just might find that the more opportunities they offer for employees to live out their entrepreneurial dreams while still on the payroll, the more rewards both will share...
...your mistakes, you don't suffer as much," advises Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca in his current best seller, Talking Straight. Last week Iacocca's company made good on its most infamous goof-up in years, the practice of test-driving some of its cars as far as 300 miles with their odometers disconnected and then selling the cars as brand...
Dorsey, who is mounting the latest major challenge to the use of AIDS testing, is one of an estimated 1.5 million individuals known as "healthy seropositives." These are people whose blood indicates infection with the AIDS virus but who have not developed the debilitating disease that has now attacked 71,171 nationwide. His situation places him among a growing group of Americans who often have difficulty finding work, housing and even medical care solely because of their test results. Reports abound of individuals who have been forced to resign from jobs, threatened with loss of a lease, or rejected...
...When word leaked last summer that Israel had secretly test-fired a medium- range missile into the Mediterranean Sea in May, reports said the missile was designed to carry a nuclear warhead and could travel 900 nautical miles, far enough to strike Soviet territory. But intelligence sources now say the exercise had an additional purpose: to test the country's capability of launching a surveillance satellite into low earth orbit...
...billed your selection process as a test of your competence and Executive abilities. Are you happy with the results...