Word: worker
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...propose to all the companies flailing in this soon-to-be bankrupt economy a "take-away test" to figure out which of your employees you really need. Simply give each worker a nice long vacation - paid, of course (it will be a cost-saver in the long run). Then sit back and see what happens. If your business output suffers and important things go undone, get that employee back. Your company clearly needs him or her. If, on the other hand, you find no discernable fall-off in business, you know what to do: Give him a raise...
Based on James McBride's novel and screenplay, the movie begins in 1983 with Hector Negron (Alonso), a New York City postal worker, standing behind his caged-in window at the post office. When a man approaches and asks for a stamp, Negron shoots him dead with a German Luger. Later, in Negron's apartment, police discover the head of a priceless statue. The rest of the film, a flashback to Italy in 1944, explains how Negron got the statue and why he executed the stranger...
...smoothed out, and the album, unfortunately, is boy-band boring. On “Miss Independent,” Ne-Yo sketches out a workplace dalliance—the video definitely speaks to a bit of sexual harrassment—between himself and a sexily self-actuated co-worker. “She work like the boss / Play like the boss / Car and a crib / She bout to pay ’em both off.” Ne-Yo’s you-go-girl rhetoric sounds patronizing, especially given the womanizing tone his previous albums took...
...that President Obama would do well should times call for unruffled calm. He wore a gray suit that fit like a mother's caress, nary a wrinkle or bead of sweat visible, and spoke in the same laconic tone you might use to discuss the weather with a co-worker while sorting your e-mail at the same time. He met the press in Clearwater, Fla., the western end of a wide belt of suburbs along Interstate 4 that usually decides who wins the state's 27 electoral votes. A regional poll out that morning showed him surging...
...impoverished mine worker, Motlanthe came of age politically as a student activist during the Soweto uprising of 1976, and the following year was imprisoned for his role in those events. He spent ten years behind bars on Robben Island, the infamous South African prison which held so many anti-Apartheid leaders it became known as the "university of the struggle", where he joined fellow inmate Nelson Mandela in the ANC. Upon release, he became an organizer for the National Union of Mineworkers, becoming its Secretary General in 1987. A decade later, was voted into the same position...