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...economy rebounded in the past several years, many executives began to wonder if they had gone too far. Introducing dog-eat-dog values into corporate cultures that continue to prize the organization over the individual generated worker dissatisfaction. Trying to rebuild company loyalty and decrease turnover, major companies including Canon, Kintetsu and Fujitsu have in recent years altered or scrapped their performance-based pay and reinstated seniority as a determinant of salaries. Meanwhile, trading house Mitsui last year reopened five dorms for single employees - a program that costs the company nearly $1 million a year. "We're hoping that group...
...noncallous answer is yes. It can't be sidestepped with Giuliani-style language about making insurance so affordable that everyone will buy it. You either have a commitment to universal coverage--as Romney did in Massachusetts and Schwarzenegger does in California--or you don't. Rudy doesn't. (No wonder he won't say how many of the 45 million uninsured his health-care tax cut would cover.) Note that this question lets Republicans embrace universal coverage without supporting a Canadian- or British-style single-payer system. Michael Moore aside, there are different ways to skin the cat here. Liberals...
...Some wonder why they chose the controversial label in the first place. Why not start a fresh organization? According to many current members, the SDS name packs major punch. "Part of the attraction for revising SDS was its history, its legacy and its promise," says Schulka. "In the '60s it had real promise. Today it has real promise...
...earned at her last job, with the American Humane Association. "It was kind of impulsive," she says of investing all her assets in the venture. "I wouldn't suggest that everyone do it. But the stock market had just taken away half of my savings, and I began to wonder how I might use what I had left to do some good...
Still, critics wonder if the measure goes far enough--for example, the original bill required that bundles of $5,000 or more be disclosed, but that threshold was raised in the final bill, to $15,000. And Republicans, while mostly in support of the measure, were quick to wryly note that the bill looked awfully similar to one they proposed last year and Democrats decried as too weak...