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...workers, since some groups can be much more productive than others. Even the bottom dwellers in a strong outfit may contribute more to a company than the top people in a weak one. Moreover, statistical rankings have little meaning within groups that are too small to generate a valid bell curve. If you have a group of five people, Jensen notes, "you have to take those five and put them into a larger pool" and compare all the workers to one another...
...rejection of the policies of the Clinton administration, but now that they're faced with the realities of the tough and complex challenges around the world, they're coming to see that a lot of what the Clinton administration was doing in different parts of the world was actually valid...
...band almost broke up after their second album because they had a crisis over whether being in a rock band is a valid way to spend a life," Flanagan says...
...complaints "run the risk of de-legitimizing the report," says Richard Valelly, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. "If the report is valid on its own, it may survive; the proof is in pudding. If the pudding is good," he says, it may prevent future questionable election procedures...
...intensity guerrilla campaign. When then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak gave the order to withdraw, in line with a campaign promise to pull out within a year of his election, he was expressing the will of some 70 percent of Israeli voters, who could no longer see any valid purpose in sending their sons and daughters to die in Lebanon in the vain pursuit of security for Israel's northernmost towns. (Despite the occupation, Hizballah had still managed to periodically rain Katyusha rockets on those towns...