Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...ruling class wants you to vote because voting tricks you into believing you have an equal stake in the power structure. You are less likely to revolt if you feel included in determining who gets to look down Arianna Huffington's blouse at Washington parties...
...beyond. What drives people up the wall is the issue of walls themselves, or the lack of them. In the early '90s, when flat organization structures, low salaries and the dream of an IPO captivated everybody, one symbol of the democratic capitalist revolution was the wall-less office, which brought together CEOS and corporate grunts in one big, happy, synergistic family. Andy Grove had--and still has--a cubicle; Jay Chiat didn't even have that. The wall-less office ruled...
Horror stories about the wall-less world abound. When dividers at a Manhattan placement agency were removed to foster "working together," reports Cecile Marie, 41, the 12 people in the 20-ft. by 30-ft. space started yelling across the room to one another. "We eventually brought in a psychiatrist because we were all so stressed," she says. "That's one of the reasons I left...
...expensive to buy and maintain. Dichter's solution was to notice that many enterprises in southern and Southeast Asia have the technical and managerial expertise to help start-up businesses in other developing countries. "Their operating costs are much lower than those of a Western company, so they demand less return on their investment," he notes. In all, TFTP has brokered deals worth an estimated $7.5 million and given new hope to businesses in countries from Thailand to Pakistan...
...There's a secret message on Gore's campaign Web page that can be viewed only by those who know how, and care enough, to check out the site's HTML, top, the programming language that determines how a site looks and runs. George W.'s page, bottom, has less behind the curtain...