Word: yearn
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Although the tests have been around for more than a century, employers have increasingly glommed on to them for one main purpose: retention. Companies yearn to nip turnover, which averages about 15% across the workforce and costs at least a quarter of a departing worker's salary. Poorly performing employees are costly, to the tune of $100 billion a year in the U.S., according to one study. The tests claim to predict a worker's "fit" with the job and corporate culture--thereby increasing chances that the hire will stick. (H-P, of course, may want its money back; Fiorina...
Bottom Line: "Unknown White Male" will be your ticket to peace of mind if you yearn to forget all those hyped-up schlockumentaries...
...Spend some time in the Anggun Spa's hydrotherapy pool, meanwhile, and you just might think you're in Langkawi. If you do yearn for urban diversions, however, the city's hippest nightclub, Zouk, can be found just over the road. Rates from around $130, hotelmaya.com.my...
...connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder a menu that eschews MSG and places strong emphasis on organic produce. Spend some time in the Anggun Spa's hydrotherapy pool, meanwhile, and you just might think you're in Langkawi. If you do yearn for urban diversions, however, the city's hippest nightclub, Zouk, can be found just over the road. Rates from around $130, hotelmaya.com.my...
...modern world has seen. But Koizumi's legacy now hangs in the balance. If the same self-confidence, the same belief in his own rightness that helped turn the economy around, ends up alienating Japan's neighbors for a generation, he will not easily be forgiven. And Japan will yearn once more for a political life of the stately dullness...