Word: vanguards
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OFFER JUST DESERTS. The Vanguard Group mutual fund company rewards employee loyalty and effort through an incentive program that accounts for as much as 30% of an employee's compensation. Even with a jittery stock market, employees stand to do well because results are determined as much by the company's progress toward its business goals as by the performance of its stock. "It's not strictly tied to the euphoria of the bull market or the despair of the bear market," explains chairman John Brennan. Employees seem to like the arrangement: turnover each year is less than 10%, about...
...white snow outside, green trees inside and Yuletide carols being sung by a choir around a battered upright piano. For the majority, carols sung by the Vienna Boys Choir are just peachy, Bing Crosby pushes the envelope, and jazz should stay where it belongs—at the Village Vanguard. For the dissenting minority, holiday songs have long been beaten into unholy submission by endless bland repetition, and jazz giants provide a perfect remedy by taking tradition and swinging it mightily...
Smith is—and has been since freshman year—at the vanguard of Harvard’s progressive movement. His political persuasion is unlikely...
...With Harvard graduates being at the vanguard of the political, academic, and economic worlds, we feel that the College should prepare us to deal with the troubling issues stemming from the 21st century’s first war,” DeAraujo wrote in an e-mail he sent to several groups encouraging students to apply...
...certainly a lot of talk about it, but it doesn?t seem to make much sense to me, according to what I?ve heard. First, there?s only 1,200 or so of them there - not really the size that you?d expect to be a part of a vanguard assault on the city. As one official put it, "that?s enough to get into trouble, but not enough to get out." In other words, you don?t want to cross that Mogadishu line where you?ve got U.S. forces stuck in the middle of a disaster without sufficient support...