Word: tweaking
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...economic slump persists, companies are becoming stingier with the severance packages they offer laid-off workers. At the same time, more employees are asking their firms to tweak the terms of their parting pay - a shot to get more as they head for the door. "The packages are smaller than they have been, and that makes the need to negotiate more critical," says employment lawyer Robin Bond, "especially since you don't know how long it's going to be until your next...
...involves a note in his pocket which reads “I don’t ever want to see you again”), but most of the lyrical content vacillates between drivel and schmaltz. Yet in order to maintain commercial success, perhaps NFG need do little more than tweak their music for an era unenthused with pop-punk and make angst-ridden songs about abortive romances. After all, there will always be an audience for this type of music, and while they may not expand their fan base much, New Found Glory can at least escape the haze...
...young and restless Iranians may be, they aren't a threat to the power structure. Disaffected Iranians either leave the country or concentrate on preserving their own pockets of freedom rather than struggle against the Islamic system. People know the red lines: women know the dress codes they can tweak; artists and writers self-censor or approach sensitive subjects obliquely. "We don't want another revolution. We don't want regime change," says the owner of a contemporary-art gallery in Tehran. "We are a gentle people...
...overcome. Since strong dislike may excite blood flow as easily as strong like, it is important to first run a few preliminary infrared scans to determine the particular blood-flow signature of a person's brain, and then to calibrate the computer accordingly. That, however, is a relatively easy tweak, no more complicated than customizing voice-recognition software to individual users. "It's really just a matter of refining the algorithms," says Chau. "We envision this at the very least as a preference detector that allows people to direct their own care...
Obama tried to tweak the conservative governors as well as Republicans in Congress when, in his speech at Fort Myers, he suggested that "governors understand an economic crisis in a way that maybe folks a little more removed don't." Which is why Crist and the moderates are probably making the safer bet among GOP governors. The severity of the crisis means that stimulus, love it or hate it, is a train that's pulling into all of their states. So the governors who may stand to emerge looking smartest are those who, as Crist puts it, "know...