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...know, the axe falls on the worthy and the unworthy. At the very moment, say ?I?m going to stay in touch with you.? Then what you can say is, ?Sit down with me, go through your resume with me? and, as a co-worker, point out your successes as a team or projects that person has excelled at. The key thing you can offer is to introduce your coworker to the people you know, because you can bring to your coworker circles of people your coworker will never be able to enter except through...
...were firefighting for twelve hours to put out the fires," says a uniformed rescue worker who only identifies himself as Tayyeb. The potency of the flames, Malik reported, derived from the use "aluminium powder" mixed in the now estimated 1,300 pounds of explosives. "It accelerated the fires," he said. In the rooms above, the temperature is estimated to have reached 400 degrees celsius (752 degrees, Fahreneit) , claiming the lives of 12 people on the third and fourth floors...
...owner of a shop once said to me with tears welling in her eyes. I looked at the knock-off shoes I was bargaining for, sighed, and paid the price she was asking. As I walked away, I turned around to watch her and her co-worker giggle with excitement. I had been had.The scene above played out in a market typical of Shanghai: four- or five-floor “malls” filled with hundreds of fake-stuff-stalls, selling everything from North Face to Abercrombie to Coach to print shirts with lazy translations (one read...
...that may not be enough to restore Chinese consumers' shaken faith in either the safety of the country's food or the competence of its regulators. Luo Hexin, a migrant worker living in Beijing, said that his two-year-old son has been drinking Sanlu-brand powdered milk for a month, but said that he now worries that all affordable dairy products are unsafe. "Now we are switching to rice soups," Luo said...
...important vagueness in the concept of service. What is the sharp distinction between jobs that are traditionally considered service, such as being a soldier, and jobs that are not, such as being a shop clerk? If that seems too clear, what about being a firefighter, police officer, doctor, sanitary worker, or bureaucrat? Without an understanding of which jobs, when paid for, still constitute service, a vision of universal service is equivalent to a new federal work program...