Word: coding
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...been quiet at home this season, the terrorism alert dozing at code yellow, telling people to be aware but not afraid. You can live on the edge only for so long before you drink the bottled water and use the duct tape for packages and just hope for the best. A CNN/TIME poll last week found people worrying more about the economy than terrorism. Yet more than half of all Americans think things are not back to normal and never will be. It has become easy to wonder whether the President has done too little to protect the country...
...dumping older workers who populate the lower rankings. Ford and Goodyear dropped their forced-ranking systems after a number of discrimination lawsuits. GE is using its grading practice to cut labor costs, says a former manager in the medical division. He says he was pressured to identify employees as "Code 4s" (on a 1-to-4 ranking scale, with 4 being worst) and "get rid of them. I never had 10% of my workers who were Code 4s, but I had to come up with that number. It was baloney." A GE spokesman had no comment...
...code scanners, ray guns, laser light shows, laser printers, Lasik eye surgery, holograms, effective tattoo removal...
World Wide Web The Internet had been around since the 1970s but wasn't ready for prime time. Only after software engineer Tim Berners-Lee created HTML code, URLs and the first browser did the Web debut in 1991. Before long, surfing was something you did indoors while basking in electroluminescent light. The Web changed the way we did everything--shop, date, invest, check the weather, get porn--and gave us control over the flow of information while compromising our privacy. For a time, an IPO craze minted millionaires--and brought us a very funny sock puppet...
...which have sporting words like CHEER, SOCCER and SOFTBALL printed across the rear. "They're always worn with the waistband turned down," explains Jennifer Bruder, owner of New York City's Berkley Girl, a tween and teen boutique. In fact, girls often roll them down twice, testing school dress-code limits on short shorts. The must-have shoe to wear with the shorts: equally sporty old-school-styled kicks, especially the groovy retro-looking Puma Mostros New Mesh sneakers...