Word: trusted
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...destroyed this close-knit corporate culture, undermining the traditional work ethic. Despite signs of Japan's improving economy during the past several years, workers have become suspicious of employers' proposals for bringing back conventional labor policies. Younger salarymen came to value career moves over lifetime employment because they lost trust in their employer, who may very well let them go at any time, regardless of their contribution to the firm. It will be difficult for Japanese companies to revive traditional business customs and boost worker loyalty. Chiaki Yamazaki, TOKYO...
...destroyed this close-knit corporate culture, undermining the traditional work ethic. Despite signs of Japan's improving economy during the past several years, workers have become suspicious of employers' proposals for bringing back conventional labor policies. Younger salarymen came to value career moves over lifetime employment because they lost trust in their employer, who may very well let them go at any time, regardless of their contribution to the firm. It will be difficult for Japanese companies to revive traditional business customs and boost worker loyalty. Chiaki Yamazaki, Tokyo...
Over the past few decades, the barbed-wire market has been shrinking because of falling demand, rising steel prices and the fact that almost 700 acres of Western sod are sectioned off, subdivided, annexed or paved over daily, according to the Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust. Strip malls, 35-acre "ranchettes," town houses, resorts, mini-mansions, water parks, you name it, are fast becoming the face of the West, much more so than rodeos, "Howdy, ma'am" manners and, well, barbed wire...
Americans keep packing on the pounds, according to the fourth annual obesity report from the Trust for America's Health. In the past year, obesity rates have gone up in 31 states, and no states had shrinking rates. The report found that two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, 60% of the population in 32 states is overweight or obese and more than 30% of Mississippians are obese--the highest number for any state ever. Outdoorsy Colorado is still the least overweight state. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...have to say up front that I'm cringing as I write this part of the e-mail because I'm not at all comfortable with the impression I may be trying to control anyone's speech or with any implication that I don't trust everyone to act in the program's best interests,” he wrote. “I just want all of us in Expos to be able to get on with the interesting projects and jobs we want to do without the static or rumors that could hamper our work...