Word: yanking
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...OPEC could yank the supply chain if fighting between Israelis and Palestinians escalates. "This is not a stretch," says Nicholas Sargen, chief global-market strategist at JP Morgan Private Bank. "As the violence picks up, the probability rises that OPEC could get involved again...
...President, while you're in Genoa, just remember the big truths. Business cycles cycle and Europeans complain about Yank unilateralism - that's what they do. But every big shot in Genoa this weekend knows full well that the American consumer is the one that's got the whole world economy in his hot little hands...
...Some physicians wonder why it would be tried at all. "Theoretically, if you pressed hard enough on the thyroid, you possibly could affect secretion," says Dr. Yank Coble, an endocrinologist at the University of Florida. "But it's pretty rare. And the adrenal glands are carefully protected above the kidneys, deep inside the body. To my knowledge, there is no evidence that you can manipulate the adrenals with body positions. That...
Whether they're fair or not, bell curve-like rating systems--which many employees now call rank and yank--have spread in recent years to some 20% of U.S. companies, and the trend is growing. They're particularly handy during periods of economic slowdown like the present one, when employees tend to cling to their jobs rather than retire or change positions. That lowers the normal rate of departures through attrition--which can run as high as 20% of a corporate work force when people feel like job hopping--just when companies are seeking to cut their costs to satisfy...
...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...