Word: though
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...Often, though, an administrator cannot be flexible enough. In those cases, Coleman suggests that a company make a rigid schedule more appealing by offering an attractive trade-off. For companies such as Corning and Goodyear, his consulting firm has created schedules that include 10 to 20 weeks of time off each year or that offer a seven- or eight-day break a month. Another way to make dismal shifts more appealing is to pay better. Coleman has found that many nightworkers will accept a difficult schedule if they can also work predictable overtime hours. "They could have a schedule," says...
...melatonin, which induces sleep. So far, a third of those involved in the Williams program have reported improvements in their alertness and energy levels. Many other U.S. companies, like Sony Electronics, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Dow Chemical, are offering their employees innovative programs similar to those at Williams. Some--though not many--U.S. companies, like Schwab, Deloitte Touche, Schlumberger and CSX Corp., even approve of at-work naps to improve alertness...
...cosmic cataclysms are known as gamma-ray bursts-- distant explosions, invisible to the human eye, that in seconds release more energy than our own little sun will put out in its 10 billion-year lifetime. Though astronomers have studied hundreds of gamma bursts, they have never determined what they are. Soon that may change. Last week astrophysicists from around the world gathered in Huntsville, Ala., to discuss the gamma-ray phenomenon and plan for the launch of a satellite that will turn the sharpest eye ever on the puzzling blasts...
TIME: Does it seem as though Bradley is looking to refight some of the battles that were fought in your party in the early 1990s...
...Though both came from "good" homes, the girl lied, shoplifted, ran away from home and had no friends. An indifferent student, the boy swung between anger and lethargy. He ate to the point of obesity, couldn't hold a job, engaged in petty thievery, lied and also had no friends...