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...Penalizing the weakest member of a small group can be dangerous to a company's legal health. "If you do not have clear-cut differences, it is very difficult to justify laying off that person," says Paul Gregory, a Houston attorney who specializes in employment law. That's particularly true if the person had been told for years that his or her work was fine. "Part of the problem with rank and yank," Gregory says, "is that most managers were not trained to give honest evaluations, so no honest, critical history exists...
...weakest argument against 24-hour universal keycard access has come from Eliot House Master Lino Pertile, who said that the Houses needed to maintain their individuality for at least part of the day. One is left to assume, of course, that this part of the day comes precisely between the hours of 1:00 and 8:00 a.m. We have no quarrel with the Masters’ desire to build a sense of community. But the idea that residents are awash in a sea of House spirit while they sleep, party and do whatever else people do during the dead...
...unemployment to drop during the weakest quarter for the GDP in a decade shows that while a lot people are losing their jobs, they're able to find new jobs relatively easily. Challenger, Gray and Christmas released a survey recently that said that in the first quarter of this year, job downtime - the amount of time it takes for a laid-off person to find another job - was the shortest in 15 years. And for workers 50 and over - the ones most likely to be looking for jobs in management, not the prototypical hamburger-flipper - the downtime was even shorter...
...world briefed each other on the good news starting to pour out of their laboratories. Unlike chemo and radiation, which use carpet-bombing tactics that destroy cancer cells and healthy cells alike, these new medicines are like a troop of snipers, firing on cancer cells alone and targeting their weakest links...
...world briefed each other on the good news starting to pour out of their laboratories. Unlike chemo and radiation, which use carpet-bombing tactics that destroy cancer cells and healthy cells alike, these new medicines are like a troop of snipers, firing on cancer cells alone and targeting their weakest links...